COVID-19 India Project #48030

Help 250 COVID-19 affected families in India

A microproject by Sense International (India)

Project Report | Nov 12, 2020
An update on Ffood Relief efforts during pandemic

By Shivkumarm Sharma | Project Leader

We are grateful to you for your valuable support as it has enabled Sense India to reach out to people with deafblindness and multiple disabilities during this crisis period. We are glad to share with you an update of our initiative to support deserving families with ration kits, that helped them to sustain and survive during these difficult times. We have already provided kits to more than 1000 families across India. We intend to continue supporting families of people with deafblindness with ration kits and medicines for next few months. We are also supporting some deafblind adults to revive their livelihood that has been badly hit due to the currentpandemic. All this has been possible because of donors like you.

During the months July and August 420 families received kits. Details of locations given in the list below.

Goa - 74 kits
Solapur, Maharastra - 50 kits
Nashik and Dhule, Maharastra - 123 kits
Shrirampur, Maharastra - 50 kits
Guwahati, Assam - 50 kits
Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh - 60 kits
Wayanad, Kerala - 80 kits
Kottayam, Kerala - 50 Kits
Raipur, Chattisgarh - 50 kits
Khamman, Telangana - 60 Kits
Kanyakumari and Trivandrum, Tamil Nadu - 55 kits
Patna, Bihar - 30 kits
Shillong, Meghalaya - 15 kits

9 years old Rakesh from Assam has deaflindness.Living in Kamrup Rural district with his family, Rakesh's father works as daily wage labourer. In beginning of lockdown, the family has to sell their only cow to get money for buying the food. But the money they received did not last long to feed family during entire lockdown period. By mid- April the family was struggling for the basic food items. They have to ask others for the food and felt helpless. They then received ration kit support twice through Sense India, which brought relief to the family.

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Aug 31, 2020
Rebuilding Lives!

By Shivkumar Sharma | Project Leader

COVID -19 crisis has posed serious challenges for all of us. During the lockdown and after that, many families have lost their livelihood, either the earnings have reduced or ceased. Families with people with deafblindness and multiple disabilities have additional responsibilities of taking care of the nutrition and medical needs of their child so the ongoing pandemic has impacted hugely upon people from low socio-economic backgrounds. Making arrangements for daily meals is a herculean task for many families. We are grateful to you for your valuable support as it has enabled Sense India to reach out to many such deserving families with ration kits, to help them sustain and survive during these dicult times. Please accept our heartfelt indebtedness for supporting this initiative to help vulnerable families.

Sense India ensured that essential ration kits are distributed to deserving families with persons with deafblindness/multiple disabilities in these dicult times. In spite of severe challenges to reach families living in containment zones and high-risk zones, team members strived to reach to such families with help from district administration and volunteers. Most important was to ensure that children with deafblindness, who may have low immunity due to associated medical conditions get proper nutrition and essential items on time. Providing essential food items meant a lot to the families with the single-earning parent; fathers who have lost their job during lockdown; parents who themselves are aged and cannot step out; families who have spent their entire savings during lockdown; daily wage laborers parents and families of children with deafblindness living in far o interior places. It surely will bring immense relief and satisfaction to see families of children and adults with deafblindness/ multiple disabilities collecting ration kit and returning to their safe abode with hope in their eyes for better days. Your support assured parents that they are neither alone nor forgotten and that with your kind patronage, Sense India will always be there for the wellbeing of their children.

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