15th April 

Dear Supporters
We thank you for your kind donation. Because of donations, we have collected Rs. 4,85,000 till now and supported several families with ration, health support and social security (Few details mentioned below).  

Region- Punjab
Date of Activity- 10th April to 15th April
SEWA in Punjab is actively engaged in supporting COVID affected families. Since the past week, we have distributed Ration Kits in Moga, Ferozpur, Mohali, and Nabha. Since movement in these areas is restricted, the local staff of SEWA has identified vendors in each area that support them in distribution. More than 200 families have received the ration Kits and the efforts are ongoing.


Region - West Bengal
Date of Activity - 6th April to 10th April 
SEWA in West Bengal is conducting Health and COVID awareness camps within communities. In the past week, we have successfully conducted health awareness sessions and distributed food kits in Malda District and Suti Block, Murshidabad.  We have covered basic preventive practices like usage of hand sanitizers, soap, social distancing, and masks.  



Region- New Delhi
Date of Activity- 6th April to 15th April
SEWA Delhi continues to support families by distributing Ration Kits. A total of 1400 kits were distributed to families living in Jahangir Puri and Rajeev Nagar areas of Delhi. We are providing them with essentials like Rice, Wheat, Dal, Sugar, Oil, Spices, etc to ensure food safety. Till now more than 2000 families have basic food essentials and we would like to reach out to more families with your support.


10th March 2020
SEWA Bharat is working in coordination with 7 state SEWA units. As requested by our funders following details regarding various areas and no. of families being served by SEWA over 7 states are being mentioned below.

State	Districts/Areas	No.of families
		Food kits	Health Packs
Uttarakhand	Almora, Rudraprayag, Bageshwar, Pithoragarh, Champawat, Dehradun	1768	8000
Delhi	West Delhi, North East Delhi, East Delhi, North Delhi, South Delhi	12000	N/A
Punjab	Patiala, Moga, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur, Mohali	500	N/A
Bihar	Munger Bhagalpur, Katihar, Patna	5500	N/A
Jharkhand	Hazaribagh, Ranchi	2210	N/A
Rajasthan	Jaipur, Bikaner	622	315
West Bengal	Murshidabad, Malda, Nadia	400	300

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7th March 2020
Our different state unions have been closely working with communities and stakeholders on multiple levels. Glimpses of various initiatives are as followed:

Food kit distribution - SEWA Delhi is closely working in coordination with the State Government of Delhi in supporting families affected with COVID-19. The government had announced the disbursement of rations through the Public Distribution System (PDS) but unfortunately, many people were excluded as they did not have ration cards. Our team members of Sewa Delhi with the support of our donors, other non-profit organizations and govt. agencies distributed 400 ration kits in New Ashok Nagar and Sunder Nagri through our community centers (Sewa Shakti Kendra) in the area. Our team distributed the ration kits to the women of the household ensuring there is no doubling. Aagewans, individually or in small groups prepared meals and distributed to families in need (Dehradun)

Masks productions & distribution  - Our Delhi based women-led garment producer company ‘Ruaab’ started stitching & manufacturing protective masks at bulk to immediate supply needs. SEWA union at Uttarakhand stitched and distributed to around 60 households in need, especially to migrant workers returning to their villages from COVID affected areas.

Awareness campaign & Information dissemination - Our teams in Delhi & Uttarakhand along with Aagewans took initiatives to spread awareness about COVID-19 through putting up posters in the public spaces like ration shops, door to door awareness sessions, information dissemination by Aagewans through WhatsApp in their mohallas and communities.
Our team at Uttarakhand Identified migrants returning from COVID affected areas and reported them at block administration to seek appropriate preventive measures. In Sult, due to timely reporting by a community leader, doctors from block-level hospitals visited and over 80 people were checked for COVID symptoms, 2 have been quarantined in medical facilities.

Data collection, cash transfers & scheme linkages - Our team members along with Aagewans have created comprehensive lists of families in different localities who do not possess requisite documents to ensure support under PDS and coordinated with the local government institutions for the scheme linkages & distribution of free meals and ration. We also  Identified families in crisis with urgent needs and connected them with individual donors for direct cash transfer/supplies distribution