All calls for help are entered into a first information sheet, and different sections then take on the work – either of transferring cash, or getting local organisations to send food or directing people to the nearest centre where cooked food is available or even making payment to gas agencies when workers have run out of cooking fuel. Learn more. In the south zone, we have had no success in helping with travel. All were worried about wives and children back home. The 34-year-old’s NGO Theruvoram, meaning street in Malayalam, has been lifting the homeless and the destitute population off the streets in Kerala and taking them to safe homes in the lockdown. Eventually, there will be another wave of distress migration from villages,” says Gupta.Copyright © 2020 The Indian Express [P] Ltd. All Rights Reserved How citizens are helping migrants stranded by the coronavirus lockdown The author and academic with Azim Premji University is a part of a volunteer group of academics, researchers and students, who began by responding to distress calls from workers early into the lockdown. Jobs will be lost, people will suffer,” says Heble. It is a hard time for the community, too. In Kolar, Karnataka, a region known for its tomato and mango production, when farmers started distress selling, Goonj decided to buy the produce over the cost price and distributed it among 5,000 families of labourers in the district. While they have run out of funds, the two friends are gearing up to meet municipal officers or legislators to bring some attention to the community.In Goa, Koshy has set up a directory of workers to help match their skill sets with jobs that come up.
How would the workers manage?” says Krishna Kumar Dosaya, a member of the Chippa Samaj. The actor along with over 50-member cast and crew of "Aaadujeevitham", was stranded there and returned after the government's intervention. You are taking calls through the day,” says Seema Mundoli. Koshy headed out to the colony with a batch of dry rations, the little she could organise in a few hours. “I know a lot more about the lives people live. The head of analytics and product management at a payment solutions firm, he raised Rs 4 lakh to supply ration to 4,000 adults for two weeks.

)'” Heble says.Watching destitution and government indifference push the vulnerable to desperate measures, and being swamped by their distress for days can take a toll. Every day, he steps out at 10.30 am to pick up food packets and deliver them to Dharavi, Kurla, Chembur, Govandi and Mahul.

Later, as many decided to cook on their own, we provided dry rations and vegetables. In Maharashtra, we managed to collect funds and arrange a truck to drop workers to the Madhya Pradesh border,” she says. (Why would we lie if we had got the food?

In the village of Kaladera, near Chomu in Jaipur district, a community of printers and dyers have started a kitchen in a temple to help 900 migrant workers stuck nearby. With it, there was also an anxiety about being believed. Over the past month, we’ve fed over 2,000 people in Bengaluru, and we still get at least 100 calls a day,” says Chandan Sharma, who looks after Goonj’s operations in Karnataka.

“Someone on our alumni group posted about a group of workers from Madhya Pradesh running out of food. He then plunged into field work with Khaana Chahiye, a citizen-led initiative. You can find out more by clicking Some middle-class families were reduced to zero. He recounts how difficult it is for the suddenly impoverished people to seek help, prompting them to tie up with mosques in the area. “Once I started seeing the ground reality, I understood the meaning of privilege,” he says.Hospitality brands, too, leveraged their massive kitchens and manpower to provide meals and relief packages. They persuaded them to return, and moved them to their shelter, where they were offered food and water and convinced to stay – instead of walking 800 km home. Had they not been affected so badly, they could have survived this lockdown,” says Amir Siddiqui of Project Umeed, which runs 43 relief centres all over Delhi. The SWAN works as a control room of relief, with volunteers divided into zones by the language they speak. “By leaving the cities, the workers have questioned us in a very big way. We give them a bath, fresh clothes and then transport them to a mental health centre or a hospital,” he says. “But, usually, it’s in a certain pocket of the country. “Your phone number becomes a helpline number.
Till date, they have packed 12,687 dry ration packets for 4,000 daily-wage workers.In this upheaval, many were moved by the plight of others to step out. Before he began going there to distribute food, Nakul Heble was only vaguely aware of the existence a community of semi-skilled workers from north India living by a lake near his home in north Bengaluru. Through the lockdown, the organisation has delivered 8 lakh kg of ration and provided 1.4 lakh meals, says Gupta.Elsewhere, too, other NGOs hit the ground running as the implications of the lockdown began to be clear. There are about 10 lakh inter-state migrant workers, and a majority of these want to leave for their homes if trains are arranged for them.

We arranged psychological counselling for those who showed signs of depression. “We cannot organise blood donation camps with As a child, Murugan S lived on the streets of Kochi and begged for food from strangers. Initially, we provided food. As several blood banks began drying up in lockdown, organisations rushed to arrange blood for emergencies. And I don’t think this work is something I can stop. “We had not prepared cooked meals before but we decided to do that because people were going hungry. Malayalam cinema's most popular actress Manju Warrier, who was trapped in Chatru village along with a 30 member film crew due to landslide, has been rescued. “The local authorities give dry ration only to native villagers. The volunteers usually help workers register on a government portal, direct them to the nearest police station to again register – and then tell them to wait. It was five days into the lockdown, and all of Goa was struggling. “Those who buy in bulk have cancelled all orders. A lot more people are going to need help.


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