By Raju Joseph | Project Leader
The reporting period of three months had once again been totally focused on the COVID 19 pandemic related interventions. Like most part of the nation and in particular, the working villages and towns of SPPD also have been witnessing the impacts of the second wave of the corona pandemic in a big way.
Children and members of the families belonging to the unorganized labor working as daily wagers have been enduring the enormous fall outs of the lockdown induced by the pandemic. For the children of the daily wagers, the closure of schools for more than a year since the outbreak of the pandemic has had a telling effect on their physical and mental health.
SPPD has been supporting a total of 1500 such deprived children with monthly distribution of nutritional food kits consisting of nine nutritional food items enough to last for a month. Dates, lentils, nutritional mix, health drink, cow peas and chick peas are some of the components that formed part of the kits. As many as 5800 nutritional kits were provided to the children during the period. This intervention has gone a long way in preventing those children from falling prey to child labor and child marriage of girl children in a big way. The nutritional kits were effectively made use of by SPPD as a tool to negotiate with the parents to prevent them from sending their children for work and deciding to marry off the minor girl children.
Similarly, the families of unorganized labor such as daily wagers, road side vendors etc were given kits of groceries to last for two months. As many as 140 families of the unorganized sector were provided with these groceries kits during the period. These two interventions one for the children and the other for the livelihood lost families have been carried out with the sponsorship and support of the Give India online platform.
Apart from these main interventions the awareness generation on the need for vaccination against COVID 19 and the protection protocols such as wearing masks and social distancing were being carried out continuously during the three months period in our working areas.
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