Bring Digital Livelihoods to 150,000 At-risk Youth

Dear Friends, Well Wishers and Supporters,

While the pandemic and its aftermath still dominated the world; we at ANUDIP reinvented 2021 with new ways shaping our resources to response across 18 Indian States and 57 districts impacting unserved communities the most. We are grateful for your donations and in-kind support last year that allowed us to create a sustainable impact in the communities we serve in the following ways:

• 28600+ resource-constraint individuals trained with digital-employability skills
• 16,200+ youth employed with sustainable job-opportunities
• 10,000+ vulnerable women trained with smart-phone training and facilities
• 3800+ college students from low-income families trained on digital proficiency
• 1080+ small businesses digitized into e-commerce platforms scaling 35% increase in their incomes
• 3500 entrepreneurs created to enable remote Indian citizen access government welfare schemes digitally

Along with creating digital livelihoods at scale, the year have been busy responding to the overwhelming critical needs of communities for whom the threat of starvation loomed largely. Our Covid-19 Response Team impacted 6000+ low-income with door-step delivery of essential ration kit and aided 3500+ needy families in quarantine with basic medicines, pulse oximeters, steam inhalers and COVID care kit. With help from some of our corporate partners we were able to plug in medical infrastructure gaps at 25 rural and semi-urban government hospitals by providing intensive care healthcare equipment. As a testament to the contributions we made to transform lives with your support, we are elated to share the prestigious awards we have received in 2021 wih you:

• Mahatma Gandhi Puraskar for enhancing employment for marginalized communites
• eNGO Challenge Winner for Gender Equality & Enablement
• Indian Chambers of Commerce (ICC) Awards for Social Impact
• Humanitarian Excellence Award for exemplary contribution in COVID crisis

We take this opportunity to thank everyone for being a part of this journey. Looking forward to your support in enabling us to stand with the neediest sections of the society.

With Gratitude,
Anudip Family
Please click here to watch the best moments - we created with you

Dear Friends, Supporters, and Well-Wishers,

We are living through an extraordinary moment in history. ANUDIP has been responding to this pandemic emergency since 2020. We write to thank you for your overwhelming support in this humanitarian crisis – and to showcase the results we have achieved together.

It is precisely your generosity that allowed ANUDIP to respond effectively, where the needs are greatest. As you will read in this report, you will learn about how our TASK FORCE have been engaged to cater to 5000+ identified families across several Indian States, whose primary bread-earners were COVID effected. We trust the stories from the field will bring you inspiration about how your contributions made a difference to thousands of Indians in this crisis.

STATISTICS
ANUDIP undertook a survey to understand the impact of COVID affected low-income households. Our work is grounded in empirical data, rigorous research and analysis to create, wherever they are needed most.The studies covered 2500+ households from the communities we serve, whose primary bread-earners are affected we serve, whose primary bread-earners are affected by COVID’s frightening spiral. Please click here to read the full survey.

Whom we served: 5000+ Farmers I Small Vendors I Drivers I Masons I Construction Workers I Daily Labours 

What we provided:

• Food Kit: Rice I Atta I Oil I Onion I Muri I Sugar I Salt I Tea-leaves I Spices I Soya Chunks I Biscuits I Drinking Water I Sanitary Napkin I Masks I Tarpaulins

• COVID Care Kit: Basic Medicines I Pulse Oximeter I Surgical Mask I Vitamin C & D I Vitamin Zink I Cetirizine Tablets I Sanitizer I Dettol I Soaps
  
  
• Livelihood Support: Upskill youth from families who lost their income due to COVID and employ them with digital livelihoods

Stories of Resilience

The statistics above are staggering - but there's a human story behind each of the numbers, too. Here are the stories of some of the crisis-stricken Indians whom we reached with your support:

“I am a manual scavenger and I carry, dispose, or otherwise handle human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in an open drain. With COVID fears, many people do not come near us since we carry dirt but a task force came and handed over a bag full of ration and essentials. Sometimes it is not about donation, it is about making us feel valued. "- A, Manual Scavenger from Jharkhand, India shared a thank you note for the donors.

“My husband and I use to sell tea worth Rs. 6 – near own a small tea-shop. MY husband got covid infected. He had to shut-down our small tea-shop which meant no income for us. I usually don’t reach out for help unless extremes but I had to ask for support. The door-step delivery by Anudip volunteers – helped us immensely with home essentials for more than three weeks.” A Tea-Stall Owner's Wife from West Bengal, India left a acknowledgement after receiving the ration box

" These days people book cabs digitally so in lockdown – ideally traditional taxi-drivers like my father has to suffer. Moreover, diesel prices are soaring high. We will get bookings only when the tourism sector improves and companies ask employees to come back to office. Till then we have to survive on our savings and donation-camps. Anudip has helped us with an essential which is helping us.”Daughter of a Taxi-Driver in Maharashtra, India speaks to us after the dry food kit.

Because of friends like you, ANUDIP was able to immediately deploy teams and emergency relief supplies to aid to these 5000+ vulnerable households. We are now working round the clock to rebuild livelihoods to help them get back a life of dignity!   Once again, thank you for your generosity and compassion. If you have any questions about our work, we would love to hear from you. Please feel free to write to us.

With deep appreciation,
ANUDIP team

Dear Friends and Supports of ANUDIP,

We are writing to you as an urgent appeal as Coronavirus's devastating impact includes lack of medical supplies and essentials worsening the second COVID wave hit in India. The impact of the COVID-19 has dramatically affected the economic security and well-being of families whose primary bread-earners are affected by COVID’s frightening spiral.  With thousands coming forward to help, we at ANUDIP, are trying our best to deliver free COVID First Aid Kit/Grocery Food Support and Telemedicine Services at the doorstep for the entire quarantine period for low/no income families whose family bread-earners has been forced to stay isolated due to COVID hit and ill-health.

Dear Friends and Supporters of Anudip Foundation,

As we begin 2021, millions of vulnerable youth in India are still grappling with everything from the COVID-19 pandemic leading from loss of livelihoods, lack of health care to extreme poverty – all in addition to any unknown hardships that lie ahead. With support from generous donors like you, we provided essentials and livelihoods to income-less families in this crisis. While doing that we engaged our donors to witness themselves the life-changing contributions they are making from around the world through LIVE video calls during distributions. Thanks to Digital!

Hear what our donors experienced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6t86gytEqA&amp%3Bfeature=youtu.be

Here’s what we have done:

• 60,000+ income-less individuals impacted with dry ration and food
  
  
• 400+ small businesses digitized to e-commerce platforms scaling a 35% increase in their income since physical spaces and shops were non-functional in lockdown
  
  
• 900+ 3D printed face-shields distributed to frontline healthcare givers
  
  
• 20,000+ youth aspirants from needy communities and income-less families trained with a 70% employment success-rate
  

Stories of  livelihoods in crisis:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfqXqF6cfYE&feature=youtu.be

Reality Check
Making matters even worse, the ILO warned that around 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy – that is nearly half of the global workforce – stand in immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed. It means so much to know that you’ll be by our side in 2021, helping us create lifelong change for the neediest sections of the society

Here’s what needs to be done:
We are raising funds to up-skill at least one member of an income-less household to acquire a fresh skill and get a job to rebuild livelihoods using financial assistance, skill training, market linkages and by partnering with local businesses, large corporations, and local government. They’re counting on you to helping them build a livelihood today. 

Here’s how we witness the change you are making:

• LIVE Zoom Calls

Update you on their latest development and face-to-face interaction with the beneficiary/beneficiaries you are supporting

• Monthly Impact Reports

Detailing on the trajectory of training, employment, and livelihood creation of the beneficiary you have supported

Your generous support would make this work possible. With your help, we can ensure that 2021 is filled with hope and opportunity for the world’s most vulnerable.

With Gratitude,
Anudip Foundation Family

Dear Friends and Supporters of Anudip Foundation,

Since we last wrote, we've been busy responding to the overwhelming critical needs of communities for whom the threat of starvation loomed largely. As the pandemic took hold here, we started a Covid-19 Response Project to support the most vulnerable. We are grateful for the donations and in-kind support that has allowed us to reach over 55,000+ migrant workers, small hawkers, domestic help, theatre, and live-artists who have lost their livelihoods in this pandemic with dry ration and essential kits which would last for a month.

You will not be surprised to read that “Skilling and Empowering should never be discontinued” - has been our mantra since the outbreak of the COVID-19, which came with stringent restrictions. With this conviction, we evolved a paradigm shift from Physical to Digital mode of training for the marginalized youth aspirants- realizing how important it is for them to come out the other side of this pandemic with job-ready skills. This risk-control decision has led hundreds of our students, who are mostly youth from low-income impoverished backgrounds into temporary ‘home-skilling’. Certainly, these changes have initiated a degree of discomfort, owing to the absence and non-affordability of own smartphones among the needy youth which has been one of the major handicaps to adapt the online mode of skill training.

However, Anudip, with its vision to create digital livelihoods, and its eagerness to build a shared world where everyone has equal access to technology has initiated its Old for you, New For Some Campaign, appealing all to donate their old workable smart-phones, laptops, and tabs—to make it possible for someone from a less privileged background to learn through the device.  For students who are facing high-speed internet bandwidth, we are paying for their data and internet connectivity to enable them to attend the classes.

So far, 200+ batches are conducted across 16 Indian States and multi-sector work-from-opportunities has been generated for the needy students, since our decision to transform from physical to virtual classes. The COVID-crisis also has given us an excellent opportunity to force the entire ecosystem to work online in tandem with quality, while keeping the opportunity-limited youth alive to the vital importance to equip themselves with new-age skills and employment.

Loss of traditional livelihoods has been the most paralyzing aspect of the pandemic so an imperative need for creating an alternative livelihood for the income-less population using financial assistance, new skills training, and market linkages is our key agenda.  We look forward to your continued support in enabling us to stand with the neediest sections of the society in this global crisis.

With Gratitude,
Anudip Family
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