SAMARPANN

COVID
relief

During  Covid-19, we worked dedicatedly to mitigate the suffering of the daily wagers and migrant laborers who lost their livelihood. We mobilized  doctors,  civil servants, and  volunteers  for the cause and reached out to the needy in  8  cities  across India.  Samarpann  distributed around  2.5  million  meals  to the daily wagers and migrant laborers in  Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi, Jodhpur, Anand, Latur Ujjain, Gorakhpur, who lost all their sources of income and lacked essential means to buy a proper meal. Each dry ration kit comprises -  

→ 5kgs wheat flour  

→ 3 kgs rice  

→ 3 kgs pulses 

→ 1 kg sugar  

→ 1 kg salt  

→ 1 Litre cooking oil

→ spices, etc.  

We designed a sanitary kit comprising  hand sanitizer, soap,  and  face mask  to be distributed to the migrant workers and the essential service providers.

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We also distributed bio-degradable sanitary napkins to the underprivileged women for whom access to safe menstrual hygiene became challenging during the lockdown. To prevent malnutrition in the children in slums and containment zones, we distributed around 35,700 milk packets and around 2 lakh nutrition bars. We catered to about 40,000 migrant workers traveling back home from Mumbai in 25 Shramik trains by providing them sanitation kits and water bottles, thus ensuring safe journeys.

Dry Ration Kits

28,700

COOKED MEAL

5,57,000

1/2 Ltr Milk Packets

35,700

Sanitary Napkin

25,000

APPY JUICE

7000

Story of Saqib

Saqib is a construction migrant worker from Sitamarhi, Bihar who had come to Mumbai a few years back in search of work. He lives in a single room in Dharavi with 20 of his friends from Bihar who also work as migrant labourers. After the lockdown was declared, they suddenly lost their source of income and also all hope to go back to their village. Saqib said he had to sell off his new phone (his only valuable possession which could fetch him some money) to buy food for himself. After Samarpan reached out to Saqib with the help of Mumbai Police, he was in tears and fell short of words. He said “I am uncertain as to when I will go back to my village. I do not want to die of hunger and I am worried about my family too. I am hopeful that Samarpan reaches out to more such people who are devastated overnight because of the lockdown and are fighting for their survival everyday.

Hand Sanitizers

56,740

Face Masks

1,58,000

Soaps

57,000

Pairs of Gloves

3,500

Water bottles

12,000

Livelihood Generation

COVID has taken a heavy toll on the livelihood of marginalized women working in small Self-Help Groups (SHGs). It has become difficult for them to earn two square meals a day. As the ‘New Normal’ begins to resume, Samarpann has taken up the initiative of ‘Rebuilding Lives’ to support the livelihood of those who have lost their sources of income during these testing times. In resonance with VOCAL for LOCAL, we are reaching out to the women SHGs to augment their sources of income and support their families even beyond COVID.

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Cardamom flavoured water bottles

14,000

Butter Milk Packets

2,400

Vegetable & Fruits

5,612 Kgs

Chikkis (Nutrition Bar)

40,330

Fruit Bars (Nutrition Bar)

1,62,480

Purchase of sanitary pads by Myna Mahila, Mumbai

Myna Mahila is a foundation which employs women from Mumbai slums to manufacture and sell affordable sanitary napkins. During the Covid -19 lockdown, we purchased 10,000 sanitary napkins from the organisation to be distributed to the women in slums, containment zones and hospitals. This not only ensured access to safe menstrual hygiene to these women in the critical times, it also ensured livelihood support to the Foundation women when their families were facing financial hardships because of the lockdown.

Purchase of Reusable Cloth Masks, Mumbai

Mahila Bachat Gat is a SHG of 8 marginalised women in Mumbai involved in tailoring activity. With lockdown, their families which had earlier been earning their livelihood by street vending or ricksha driving etc have lost their sources of income. Samarpan is purchasing reusable cloth face masks in bulk from this SHG and distributing the same to the essential service providers and the people in need. We also look towards capacity augmentation of the unit by providing them infrastructural support and further providing them better markets.