Help The Daily Wage Labourers Survive The Second Wave Of COVID-19

India’s COVID-19 cases have once again spiked to record high numbers. And it’s only increasing with every passing day. Last year, along with our NGO partners we were able to impact over 2 million+ lives by distributing over 5 lakhs+ products in 23+ states across India. This year, we want to do more.

This second wave has already been proven to be more dangerous than the first, and with several states imposing curfews, the daily wagers once again face uncertainty. Many of these essential workers include farmers, construction workers, street vendors, masons, painters, vendors and more. This large segment of the unorganized sector does not have the necessary resources to survive another wave of this pandemic. They rely on their daily wages to put food on the table and have already suffered great losses in the last year.

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. They suffer from various problems such as lack of access to food and basic amenities. 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 there have been 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.

However, our NGO partners are working day and night to provide grocery kits 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. COVID-19 should not push them into starvation again. Let’s come together and help the most vulnerable during these difficult times. Together, we can make a difference - these families need your help now more than ever. A grocery kit can save a life. Beneficiary NGOs:

1. Praveenlata Sansthan: Praveenlata Sansthan is an award-winning NGO based in Jaipur, Rajasthan working at the grassroots level. They work with girls and women coming from various slums who work as daily wage labourers as maids, making rugs from home, working in nearby factories cutting threads or cooking food in weddings, daughters of rickshaw pullers and street vendors. 

Location: Jaipur , Rajasthan

2. Nand Care Foundation: Nand care foundation is intensively working for the upliftment of underprivileged kids in Dhanbad and nearby areas. Their aim is to provide pre-primary education to these 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 benefitted through Play School and 50 government school kids from the nearby area.

Locatio : Dhanbad , Jharkhand

3. Hope Welfare Trust: It’s a voluntary-based NGO in Varanasi started by a group of students in 2015. Their mission is to bring sustainable development to rural communities, with women’s empowerment playing a key role. So far, they have worked at 150+ villages in eastern Uttar Pradesh to uplift the most vulnerable. They continue to work hard towards rural development.

Location: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

4. Rajasthan Samgrah Kalyan Sansthan (RSKS) - RSKS is a pioneer in the promotion of livelihood, microfinance & enterprise, women & child education & development, women empowerment, gender equality, children welfare, human rights and environmental and water issues for the marginalized & deprives sections of the rural community.

Location: Ajmer, Rajasthan

5.  Dharavi Diary - Dharavi Diary is a co-learning and unlearning space for lower-income communities in Dharavi to create sustainable ways of problem-solving and education. This learning centre empowers local communities to become change-makers themselves. Dharavi Diary has been working to help the residents of the slum by working proactively on the ground, they have tied up with a ration store within Dharavi and have been delivering ration kits to the families in need. They started with a target of 145 families and have succeeded in a short time to feed more than 2000 families.

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra

6. Humanity First Foundation: Humanity First Foundation was founded by Mohammed Shujatullah. They serve nearly 1000+ needy people "Free healthy breakfast" which is Upma made in pure ghee and served with chutney at 3 government hospitals every day. It was started in 2016 and is based out of Hyderabad. Their mission is to eradicate hunger regardless of caste or creed. They also serve orphanages in addition to the hospitals

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

7. Agrini - Agrini is a non-profit organization set up by Gourav Jaiswal in 2009. It’s an education charity based near the forest area of Pench Tiger Reserve in central India. They began operations in 2009 with the main goal of improving the quality of and access to purposeful and quality education in rural areas of Madhya Pradesh. Over the last 10 years, they have been working to innovate, implement and advocate multiple initiatives to ensure every child receives a quality education.

Location: Seoni, Madhya Pradesh

8. The Success Vision Education & Welfare Society: The Success Vision Education & Welfare Society has taken the initiative to help the underprivileged, helpless and needy people during the dangerous second wave of the pandemic in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh by providing ration kits. Your little help can give many people a 'smile of hope.' in this pandemic.

Location: Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh

9. Aangan For All (AFA): AFA is a project that aims to create an Aangan for the community to learn, share and exchange information, ideate and build up programs/ plans that will help towards creating a sustainable livelihood especially for the underprivileged. They are currently serving people from the tourism sector in Agra who've lost their jobs due to the pandemic.

Location: Agra, Uttar Pradesh

10. Jayaraj Foundation: Jayaraj, is a govt servant working in Bangalore. He has been working tirelessly during the lockdown to provide for the needy in slums. Jayaraj started this NGO to help slum dwellers who are left to fend for themselves in these harsh times.

  Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka

11. Doon Animal Welfare: They are engaged in working for neglected humans and animals by providing them free treatment facility, free medicine. Society is also working for betterment of the environment by planting trees, awareness among the society. Society is helping poor people with major surgeries by providing food, medicine, clothes, caretakers and all the other possible ways.

Location: Dehradun , Uttarakhand

12. Spreading the Happiness: Spreading the Happiness is a Hyderabad based NGO that works majorly with food distribution.They have contributed fresh food and unused leftover food to needy people at slums, outside hospitals etc. They also provide ambulances and wheelchairs for ailing patients. They have been working relentlessly during the pandemic as well. They aim to spread happiness not only in Hyderabad but nearby villages as well.

 Location: Hyderabad, Telengana

13. Mahila Abhivrudhi Mattu Samrakshana Samsthe: MASS or Mahila Abhivrudhi Mattu Samrakshana Samsthe was founded in 1997 in Belgaum, Karanataka to help rehabilitate ex-devadasi women and their families as well as efforts to help current devadasis escape their harsh conditions. They mainly work with Dalit women and ex-devadasis. The NGO is a membership association with about 3779 ex-devadasi women as members. MASS is on a mission to eradicate the devadasi system, secure livelihoods for devadasi women, and to bring justice to them and their children.

Location: Belgaum, Karnataka

14. Visually Challenged Welfare Society: Visually Challenged Welfare Society is an NGO that provides education, employment, training, and rehabilitation for visually impaired people. Their primary focus has been on the welfare of visually challenged and visually challenged young girls but their overall mission is the upliftment of people with visual disabilities as a whole and to end the stigma around visually challengedness.

Location: Delhi

15. Pochabhai Foundation: Started in 2008,  Pochabai Foundation is committed to improving the lives of marginalized people and helping all those in need. Their work is focused particularly on the welfare of Dalit and Adivasi communities. They’re based largely out of the Tarapur district of Anand, Gujarat.

Location: Anand, Gujrat

16. Umeed Ki Kiran: Ummeed Ki Kiran Foundation Trust is a non-governmental organization founded in 2016 by service-minded and dedicated youth of Varanasi in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The team of UKKFT started the organisation with a view to make society a better place and work for the people who are in need. The NGO is registered under the Indian Trust Act. 

Location: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

17. Nivesh India: Nivesh was started in 2005 to support education, health, water and sanitation, culture and animal welfare pan India. Nivesh will be raising the donations for refilling oxygen cylinders and delivering them to hospitals and individuals in need to treat COVID-19 affected patients 

Location: Delhi

18. Making The Difference: Making the Difference was established in 2014 by Mr Deepak Vishwakarma. It's an NGO based in Mumbai formed with an aim to serve the needy and underprivileged communities. The NGO has been working relentlessly during this time of crisis to serve people from various sections of society. They’ve provided hundreds of people with oxygen supplies, and want to continue their service by helping the daily wagers survive this crisis. 

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra

19. Voice of Slum: Voice of Slum is an NGO based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. It’s 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. They have helped thousands in the last year, during the pandemic. They wish to do the same this time with your help.

Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh

20. Spoorthi Foundation: Sphoorti Foundation is a non-profit organization working for underprivileged children - orphaned, abandoned, destitute, and other vulnerable groups. Their mission is to change the lives of such children - by providing them with long-term care. This includes basic needs, education and healthcare, and skills necessary to transform them into responsible citizens. During the pandemic, they’re helping the most vulnerable sections of society get access to grocery kits.

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

21. Project Ashray: Ashray Centre, inaugurated on 3rd May 2021 by Sri VC Sajjanar, IPS, Commissioner of Police, Cyberabad has been servicing the critical needs of the city. It caters specifically towards providing Intermediate Covid medical Care to patients who are Covid Positive and are suffering from moderate symptoms. 

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

22. Jeevan Kumar Help Line Hyderabad: Jeevan has a four-member team and a dedicated helpline email- (jeevankumarhelpline@gmail.com) - where they verify covid  patient’s name, address and medical reports and provide free food for those who require it.

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

23. Sankalp Ek Prayas: Sankalp Ek Prayas NGO formed in 2010 in Chhattisgarh has been working for ensuring education for the most disadvantaged underprivileged children and is running 60 community support school centres for supporting 6000 children in economically backward geographies.

Location: Bihar, Dhanbad, and Patna 

24. Kokan: The organisation started its work in 2010 to support the needy and poor , In this critical time, Kokan ngo is planning to stock them with 15 days of grocery requirements , and have currently helped 500+ families in Maharashtra.

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra

25. Nari Gunjan: Nari Gunjan NGO in India works for the Musahar community (Rateaters),the dalit of Bihar, one of the scheduled castes who are considered the "untouchables" till now.

The NGO takes care of the education & nutrition of the girls of this community by running centres at various locations throughout Bihar.

Bihar, Uttar Pradesh

26. Be The Change: Be The Change is an NGO in Hosapete, Karnataka, that has been working towards empowering and uplifting people in need for 2 years now. Along with focusing on important issues like hunger and education, they also have several awareness programs for women's safety and hygiene, menstrual hygiene and mental health. Through these programs, they give underprivileged women access to essentials like soaps, brushes, towels, and sanitary pads. This 50 member volunteer team now strives to make sanitary pads accessible to government school and college students, and children in orphanages.

Location: Vijayanagara, Karnataka

27. Jeevaspandana: Jeevaspandana Seva Trust designs and implements activities relevant to the needs of people from all sections of the society, irrespective of caste, creed, colour, gender or religion. Each of the activities function in their own unique ways to propel the journey towards socialistic development, fuelled by indicators such as using education, health, environment and livelihood. Together, these Services are equipped with the power to transform entire communities.

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka

28. Sevadham Ashram: Sewadham Ashram is providing its selfless services for the noble cause of serving suffering humanity.  They accept abandoned old, challenged, mentally ill, dying and destitute people coming from across the nation found at the bus stands, railway stations, roads, pavers, temples, hospitals and other public places, who live here in a single joint family. Exploited, abandoned, married, unmarried, mentally ill pregnant women also found safe shelter, care and protection at Sewadham Ashram.  All residents are served there with love, care and compassion irrespective of their caste, creed, religion, age and s*x.

Location: Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh

29. Uday Vikas Samiti: Uday Vikas Samiti Mayajlar is a registered NGO in Jaisalmer working towards the welfare of folk artists. They mentor young children, teach them music and dance. Roje Khan, a prominent musical artist is also associated with them and has been a mentor to many children and upcoming artists. Amid the Corona pandemic and the nationwide lockdown, they are striving to help folk artists in the western part of Rajasthan. Roje khan, Latif Khan, Chanan Khan, Abdul Khan, Dayam Khan and Hamle Khan will conduct the distribution drives to provide grocery kits to the folk artists in Jaisalmer.

Location: Jaisalmer, Rajasthan

Note: All the donations towards this campaign is eligible for Indian Tax Exemption.