Help the families of daily wage laborers during the Corona crisis

Update as on 22nd May 2020 - With the support of the state governments and vendors, we have started shipping supplies to our NGO partners. We were able to support over 30,000+ families amid this crisis. This initiative is a long term relief effort to support families of daily wage workers and construction workers.

Over the past few months, Corona Virus has spread rapidly across the country. India’s COVID-19 cases have spread across 213 countries infecting millions of individuals.and the numbers are increasing. The government has been actively working towards stemming the outbreak. A nationwide lockdown was put into place and has been extended in phases based on the spike in the cases in various regions. A large segment of the unorganized sector i.e., the daily wage workers, the construction labourers, farmers and so on do not have the necessary resources to survive. They rely on their daily wages to put food on the table. 

The entire country was on lockdown in the last two months and the daily wagers haven't been able to work.  

There is a huge lack of awareness of the pandemic among these individuals from marginalized communities. These communities are already vulnerable as they don’t have proper homes, adequate income or sufficient resources. These individuals from under-served communities are on the brink of starvation. Many of them have mostly exhausted their monthly ration supplies and most of them do not have access to avail rations due to lack of awareness. Most of the students rely on midday meals which have also stopped since many schools have shut down.

The street vendors struggle to sell whatever they have. Women employed in household activities were instructed not to come. They are shut in their own homes with little or no food at all. While the government has been making efforts to provide ration and food supplies to the marginalized communities, India’s current economic situation, population, and distribution of resources make it a struggle.

Voice of Slum is working day and night to provide a grocery kit to these families. A few supplies such as rice, dal, and oil can help these families survive. These families need your support and help to survive. The Corona Virus should not push them into starvation.

The lockdown is slowly easing and things will take a while to come back to normal. However, this new normal will still deprive these vulnerable communities of work. They need your help to survive the aftermath of the lockdown. Donate now to help them.

Beneficiary NGOs    :

1. Voice of Slum - Voice of Slum is an NGO based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Their mission is to assimilate street children into mainstream society by providing them with quality education,  exposure and access to opportunities. The NGO is run by those born in slums, who have been through it all. They now want to help other slum kids have a better life.

Where is it located?

House number; 78/3, Gali Number; 3, Village chhalera, Near chhalera bus stand, Dadri Road. Near Garg Medical Store. Noida, Sector 44. Uttar Pradesh - 201301; India

2. Seva Kitchen - The idea of calling it Seva Kitchen, came with some deliberation. The name, quite literally, draws on the traditional value of selfless giving - a desire to serve or doing Seva. Although we started off by making meals accessible to relatives of patients in the hospital, the term Seva Kitchen continues to cover a broader aim of addressing hunger needs. Towards this guiding principle is the belief that every kitchen, in every town, village or city is a Seva Kitchen. The provider of food to those who are hungry, because every meal counts!

Where is it located?

Seva Kitchen. 127, New Colony, Nagpur - 440001, Maharashtra (India).

3. Sphoorti Foundation - Sphoorti Foundation works for the rehabilitation of underprivileged children - orphaned, abandoned, destitute and other vulnerable sections of society. Their journey started with 3 students in Oct 2005 renting a very modest house. In the last 15 years, they have made significant progress in developing resources for the children. They now support 250 children – 132 boys and 118 girls in the age group 5-20. They work with a mission to support children and to build their future. 

Where is it located?

Survey No. 324, Dundigal Village, Qutbullapur Mandal. Ranga Reddy District. Telangana - 500043

4. Nand Care Foundation -  Nand care foundation is intensively working for the upliftment of underprivileged kids in Dhanbad and nearby areas. Our initiative is to provide Pre-Primary education to these ignored kids who have the immense potential not only to thrive in their future but also to contribute to the development of our nation. 100 underprivileged kids are getting benefit through Play School and 50 government school kids from the nearby area.

Tackling the Corona crisis:

We work with underprivileged kids Their parents mostly engaged in rag-picking, begging and work as daily wage labours in local mines or construction. In lockdown, they are struggling to feed their family and they don't have any saving they work every day earn and feed their family. Nand care foundation taking care of 150 kids and their family and old age in locality

Where is it located?

Barmaisa, Near Hari mandir Duhatand, Dhanbad, Jharkhand - 826001; India

5. Praveenlata Sansthan -  Praveenlata Sansthan is an award winning NGO based in Jaipur,Rajasthan working at grassroot level.Their mission is to work for behavioral, social and Economic transformation of Girls and women from marginalized communities focusing to work on their Education,Health and Safety and Livelihood opprtunities. street.The NGO was founded by Bharti Singh Chauhan (100 Women Achievers of India) who has fought the battle to become a role model for gitls and women across the nation.

Tackling the Corona crisis:

We work with girls and women coming from various slums who work as daily wage laborers as maids, making rugs from home, working in nearby factories cutting threads or cooking food in marriages,daughters of rickshaw pullers and street vendors.

 They can hardly afford a meal without  work. With the lockdown and the Corona crisis, they are struggling to feed their families. Praveenlata Sansthan has been working with more than 500 children and their families. They will ensure to distribute the products amongst the slum dwellers responsibly.

Where is it located?

House number; 7,Sitarampuri,East Govind Nagar Amer Road,Jaipur,Rajasthan (302002)

6. Oscar Foundation - OSCAR Foundation is a football for development NGO, registered in 2010 with Bombay Public Trust Act,1950. It is dedicated to empowering children and youth in low-income communities in India.  OSCAR uses football as a tool to deliver education and life skills sessions enabling children and youth to become role models in their community. Over the last 10 years, more than 12,000 children and youth in India have joined OSCAR’s Football, Education, and Young Leaders’ Programme.

OSCAR Foundation is headquartered in Mumbai and has reached out to children in Mumbai, Delhi, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Jharkhand.

Tackling Coronavirus :

Phase 1

The team undertook community visits to create awareness through individual home visits, distributed pamphlets which outline safety measures and provided hand sanitizers to all the households. The organisation also opened the doors of our centres, in Ambedkar Nagar, Cuffe Parade and Muchhimar Nagar, Badhwar Park Colaba for any emergencies and displayed banners regarding prevention and safety.

Phase 2

In a bid to help these families who are and will continue to be affected as businesses are temporarily shutting doors, we’re working to help their families stock up for food and essentials for the next 30 days. Although the number of families who need this support is huge. To begin with, our team has identified 200 families who need this support urgently. The families have been identified on the basis of one or more of the following criteria :

1. Earning member being a daily wage labourer 

2. Family income is less than 12,000 a month

3. The earning of the family for the next 3 months will be very low or nil

4. Family consists of more than 5 members

5. Family is having a loan/debt to be repaid

6. Family lives in a disadvantaged community (one of OSCAR’s intervention areas) where public facilities are scarce.

7. Human Welfare Charitable Trust - Founded in 2015, HWCT focuses on Education, Skill Development for Children, Youth and Women in Mumbai & Rural Maharashtra. They support to integrate rural schools with the modern-day education systems that focus on Skill Development, Education Enablement and Employment. UNNATI ABHIYAN is their Three-Fold Initiative that focuses on Digital Learning, Skill Alignment and Increasing Employability of adolescents in rural areas. A generation of youth that raises the per capita income of their communities, contributes to the development of villages. Educate the next generation and hence put an end to the perpetual cycle of poverty. UNNATI ABHIYAN is committed to engaging with like-minded individuals and organizations to provide the necessary resources to achieve this mission.

Tackling the Corona crisis:

They’re reaching out to marginalized communities in rural areas to help them battle this crisis. They’re distributing face masks and hand sanitizer kits to over 2000 families in the villages in and around Mumbai. They’re fighting to provide essential products to help these families cope with the pandemic.

8. S.M.H. Educational and Health Welfare Society - As the 21 day nationwide lockdown came into effect, SMH Educational and Health Welfare society from adil nagar in Lucknow came forward to extend a helping hand to the vulnerable sections of the population. The group has been on front of many Indian dialies for their work of social harmony and was highly lauded by Chairman of Press Council Of India and Former Judge of Supreme Court Markandey Katju. The group aims to work for the communal harmony and collate the society. In this time of unprecedented challenge, these people have been burning the midnight oil to educate and help society in the best way possible. The group is managed by Shariq Ameen, Taha Mahmood and Zain Siddiqui at the upfront with their team holding their backs. By far they have made significant efforts to bring about significant changes.

Tackling the corona crisis:

The challenges posed by the covid 19 has been harsh for the weaker section of society especially the labourers and daily wage workers. And identifying the need of hour, the group came up with innovative idea to help the migrants travelling for kms. They distributed packaged food items to the people travelling for days without a meal of single time. They also distributed ration to the families residing in slum who are having a hard time to afford their daily bread. Apart from fetching food to people across Lucknow, they educated and informed people about the pandemic and the ways to prevent it. The group  believes that educating people at grass root level seek to improve the resilience of the entire nation. In totality these philanthropies aim to control the economic and health consequences of Covid - 19 and yet proving the fact - Charity begins at home.

Where is it located?

C-5, AHILYABAINAGAR, ADIL NAGAR, LUCKNOW, PINCODE- 226022

9. Youngistan - Award Winning and One of India’s largest network of volunteers (with over 5000 registered volunteers), the Youngistaan Foundation is committed to making a difference in the community by helping those in need. Started in January 2014, Youngistaan, a registered NGO, is fuelled by the desire to change the world by touching one life at a time.

Where is it located?

Flat number A 104, Badruka Enclave, Above Andhra Bank, Road Number 12, Nandi Nagar, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, Telangana 500034

10. Mukul Kumar - Mukul Kumar is an individual initiative, who is a very well known social worker in Bihar. He wanted to help the people who are from underprivileged communities in this crisis period through Donatekart.

Note: Donations towards this fundraiser are not eligible for any tax deduction such as 80G, 501(c) etc.