By Janice Vard Smith | Project leader
In the midst of this humanitarian disaster in India, Nandri continues to support our families and share vital food aid to the local villages. One of our life saving initiatives is educating our families on how to stay safe. Handwashing and social distancing Is extremely challenging when families live together in close confines with no running water in their houses, no toilet facilities and just a communal water pump where they can fetch water every day. Families collect water in a bucket to wash themselves and also to cook and clean. We implemented an education programme for the mothers and their children to explain the importance of adhering to the hygiene guidelines in order to keep safe. It has been extremely successful and to date only a couple of our families have contracted the virus and thankfully have recovered. this pandemic has highlighted the importance of proper sanitation and hygiene facilities for our rural families.
India was the 3rd nation to hit the unenviable milestone of 1 million cases of COVID19 after USA and Brazil. The United Nations Aid chief has said that the support to poor countries has been grossly inadequate and urged the G20 to increase the aid or to suffer the devastating consequences in the future. Certain regions have had to reimpose restrictions to curb the spread of the virus and worryingly for Nandri, there has been an increase in spread in rural areas. As a result of the rapid spread of the virus, Tamil Nadu has reimposed lockdown restrictions, resulting in further financial hardship for our people. Per capita spending on Healthcare in India is among the lowest in the world and already Indias hospitals are struggling. The situation in India is at crisis level.
RIght now our main focus is supporting our families financially and through education on hygiene and social distance in order to survive the pandemic. They have no income as the daily wage earners are not allowed to work. they have no money to buy food. We are continuing to distribute vital aid to all our Nandri families. The last couple of months we distributed life saving food parcels to many of our local villages where families are struggling to survive.
Our families know we are there for them to help them survive this catastrophe. We thank you, all or our donors, for giving us the ability to help them. we could not do it without you. On behalf of our families, a big Nandri from us to you all.
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