{"id":5911,"date":"2021-07-23T14:30:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.matsio.com\/matsio\/i-probono.in\/?p=5911"},"modified":"2023-04-01T21:56:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T16:26:41","slug":"july-2021-update-iprobonos-covid-19-relief-campaign","status":"publish","type":"ipb_casestudy","link":"https:\/\/dev.matsio.com\/matsio\/i-probono.in\/ipb_casestudy\/july-2021-update-iprobonos-covid-19-relief-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2021 Update \u2013 iProbono\u2019s COVID-19 Relief Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second wave of COVID-19 in March 2021 in India, a year after the first major wave, overwhelmed the healthcare system, resulting in devastating shortages of drugs, hospital beds and oxygen. According to BBC News, the country recorded approximately 26 million COVID-19 cases during the second wave, and is the third in the world to record more than 300,000 deaths behind the United States and Brazil.[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

“We have been hearing about the horrors of this disease. I don’t know what to do. We have no access to a hospital close to us and no way to access oxygen if my family needs it. I am also out of work.”<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u2013 S. Kumar, Uttar Pradesh*<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Through a dedicated <\/span>fundraising campaign<\/span><\/a>, <\/b>iProbono<\/span> continues to extend support to grassroot partners and organisations. The campaign serves people who live with great precarity, acutely affected by the aftermath of the second phase of the COVID-19 lockdown, and face severe food insecurity. Since April 2020, <\/span>iProbono has supported over 35 groups<\/span><\/a> \u2013 including partner organisations, fieldworkers, and volunteer networks by providing cooked food and dry rations to almost 190,000 people<\/strong>, for periods ranging between 14 to 84 days, which is roughly the equivalent of around 8,700,000 meals<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the second phase of the distribution, from March and June 2021,<\/span> the efforts extended to 91 districts, 16 States and Union Territories, and support to three new partners. <\/b>The number of people reached in this phase of funding was 45,420 individuals, for periods ranging between 14 to 84 days, roughly the equivalent of 2,722,950 meals. In addition, iProbono supported the distribution of 1000 health kits, 1000 mosquito nets and 400 supplementary nutrition kits<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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iProbono identified the individuals and communities in need based on three broad areas:<\/p>\n

1. Populations not covered by the government-run Public Distribution System: <\/b>This includes distribution in India\u2019s poorest states where there are large returning migrant populations \u2013 including Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Assam and Chhattisgarh. iProbono worked with partners Aman Prayas<\/a> in Jharkhand and Mijwan Welfare Society (MWS)<\/a> in Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n

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Dry ration distribution by Aman Prayas in Tanko Village, Ranchi, Jharkhand.<\/p><\/div>\n

Aman Prayas reached approximately 6,750 individuals including disadvantaged tribal families from the Santhal tribe, the Oraon Tribe, and the Sauria Paharias (who are a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group or PVTG). We also reached disadvantaged populations from the muslim community, pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls, and other d<\/span>isadvantaged low-income groups across three districts in Jharkhand.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dry ration distribution by MWS in tribal villages of Mirzapur District, Uttar Pradesh.<\/p><\/div>\n

Mijwan Welfare Society facilitated distributions across eight districts in Uttar Pradesh to households of migrant workers, tribal communities who earn a living by selling <\/span>disposable plates<\/span> made out of leaves, and other disadvantaged low-income groups like Dalits from the Musahar Community, known as the rat-eaters, who continue to catch rats for a living due to destitution and poverty.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have a daughter and son and have no access to work and no money. No one else has come to help us. I will need more ration going forward. During this lockdown, my son had to eat salt with bread to fill his stomach.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

– <\/span><\/i>A resident of Ghazipur District, Uttar Pradesh<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

2<\/strong>. Vulnerable populations typically excluded from access to food: <\/b>This includes those who were already living on the edge prior to the lockdown, including daily wage earners, single women-headed households, adolescent girls in both rural and urban contexts, workers freed from bonded labour, sex-workers, the homeless, the elderly, persons with disability, tribal communities, and those otherwise excluded due to their caste or religion. To reach these groups, iProbono worked with <\/span>Foundation for Sustainable Development<\/span><\/a> based in Telangana and Tamil Nadu, <\/span>Help Foundation<\/span><\/a> in Jammu and Kashmir, and <\/span>SAPNA<\/span><\/a> based in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dry ration distribution by FSD in Villupuram District, Tamil Nadu.<\/p><\/div>\n

In this phase of distribution, Foundation for Sustainable Development reached over 8,890 construction workers, migrant workers, domestic workers, survivors of bonded labour and elderly tribal labourers across Tamil Nadu and Telangana.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dry ration distribution by HELP Foundation in Baramulla District, Srinagar.<\/p><\/div>\n

Help Foundation facilitated distribution to primarily daily wage workers, artisans, disadvantaged families with children, single-women headed families, families with elderly people and no adult members, and families living in <\/span>kuchha<\/span><\/i> houses\/shanties and in remote areas across Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the people reached in the distribution was Nida Afaq Bhat, who is 30 years old. Nida suffers from lung cancer. She has been married for two years but her husband abandoned her following the diagnosis of her illness. Her financial condition is precarious — she cannot work very much due to her deteriorating health. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Distribution of cooked food by Sapna at Anandam, Vijay Mandir – a home for the homeless in Alwar, Rajasthan.<\/p><\/div>\n

3. Communities in urban areas,<\/b> including those living in informal settlements, homeless shelters, and construction sites. Our partners included <\/span>Centre for Health and Resource Management (CHARM)<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Koshish Charitable Trust<\/span><\/a>, both based in Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dry ration distribution by CHARM in Patna District, Bihar.<\/p><\/div>\n

CHARM reached approximately 10,150 individuals including urban ultra-poor families of daily wage earners, construction workers, small-scale mechanics, rickshaw-pullers, domestic workers, manual scavengers; dalits and minority families in the rural areas; d<\/span>isadvantaged families headed by widows; disadvantaged sexual minorities; and sex workers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dry ration distribution by KCT at Gausnagar village, Patna, Bihar.<\/p><\/div>\n

Koshish Charitable Trust<\/span><\/a> distributed ration kits to approximately 6000 individuals in Bihar including migrant workers, domestic workers, Dalit households and disadvantaged families headed by single women.  <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am a resident of Gausnagar, Patna and my family consists of three children, my husband and I. During the lockdown, my husband lost his job as a daily wage earner in Kolkata and returned to Patna. We had no ration and faced a lot of difficulties to procure food for our children.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

– <\/span>Shehzadi Ali<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Sustaining Food Relief and Wider Advocacy Efforts <\/b><\/p>\n

We are working with our grassroots partners to ensure the highest levels of accountability in food relief distribution. Alongside the food relief campaign, iProbono is in the process of identifying areas of both short and long-term advocacy needs that partners are engaged with including wage security and an array of issues under social protection. In Jharkhand, <\/span>we collaborated with a network of organisations<\/span><\/a> to link over 80 workers and their families across 12 districts to social protection schemes with urgency. More recently, we are developing plans to pilot rural and urban legal advice centres with our partners in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. <\/span><\/p>\n

Several of our partners are implementing programmes for livelihood regeneration, access to shelter, emergency health support, and bringing greater accountability into public distribution, in order to make the food relief initiatives sustainable for these vulnerable households in the long term. Providing funds for food relief enables them to free up resources for these essential supporting initiatives. <\/span><\/p>\n

__________________________________________________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information, please contact: <\/span><\/p>\n

Shireen Irani, Executive Director and Founder – <\/span>shireen.irani@i-probono.in<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Gitanjali Prasad, former Advocacy Lead – <\/span>gitanjali.prasad@i-probono.in<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

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[1] <\/span>\u2018India records 300,000 Covid deaths as pandemic rages – BBC News.\u2019 24 May. 2021, <\/span>https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-57224565<\/span><\/a>. Accessed 12 Aug. 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7100,"featured_media":5922,"template":"","case_study_types":[205],"class_list":["post-5911","ipb_casestudy","type-ipb_casestudy","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ipb_media_region-india","case_study_types-other-interventions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nJuly 2021 Update \u2013 iProbono\u2019s COVID-19 Relief Campaign - iProbono India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"July 2021 Update \u2013 iProbono\u2019s COVID-19 Relief Campaign - iProbono India\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"iProbono continued to support grassroots partners with a second phase of distributions to vulnerable communities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dev.matsio.com\/matsio\/i-probono.in\/ipb_casestudy\/july-2021-update-iprobonos-covid-19-relief-campaign\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"iProbono India\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-04-01T16:26:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dev.matsio.com\/matsio\/i-probono.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1100-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1100\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"459\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.matsio.com\\\/matsio\\\/i-probono.in\\\/ipb_casestudy\\\/july-2021-update-iprobonos-covid-19-relief-campaign\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.matsio.com\\\/matsio\\\/i-probono.in\\\/ipb_casestudy\\\/july-2021-update-iprobonos-covid-19-relief-campaign\\\/\",\"name\":\"July 2021 Update \u2013 iProbono\u2019s COVID-19 Relief Campaign - 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