By Danielle Givens | Executive Director
We all are going through challenging and turbulent times as we deal with the pandemic. Lockdowns have caused economic despair and despondency in our communities, halting all economic activities rendering the daily wage earners jobless. Most children and women who had graduated from our schools and had either launched their businesses or were preparing for self-employment have been affected badly. There is uncertainty and fear for the future as most earning members of the family have lost their jobs. They have few savings and cannot afford to store food. They are facing devastating consequences as there is very little or no income which directly relates to missing meals, yet too proud or afraid to ask for help.
With the help of teachers who are mostly local residents, we have identified households in urgent need of support and have created lists with all the necessary information, selecting most deserving families who have had too little or nothing to eat and are in urgent need of support. Our community-based volunteer team have managed to distribute food ration bags among the families in the last five months. We send over hand washing soaps and masks with basic hygiene and social distancing instructions.
The government has announced that schools will reopen in phases starting from colleges and universities in phase one. Since the lockdown, our teachers prepare weekly homework packets for the students: these along with notebooks and stationary are delivered to the students. We understand that life during pandemic is difficult for parents and children alike, confined to overcrowded, small houses in vulnerable communities, limiting their ability by containment and physical social distancing among other issues. To avoid lasting damages, such as forced child labor to bolster family income and early or forced girl marriages, we are scaling up support for children and their families.
We hope the schools will remain open if only as a place of refuge for our students. We are taking all necessary precautions to keep our students and their families safe.Thank you for staying by our side duing this difficult time.
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By Danielle Givens | Executive Director
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