Let’s unite and fight against COVID-19

Update on 6th May 2020

Dear Supporters & Well-wishers

It's been 45 days of COVID-19 lockdown!
We started the campaign "Let’s unite and fight against COVID-19 to support the most vulnerable communities" with an aim to support 30,000 families. With more than 600 individual donors and 8 Corporate/CSR partners, we were able to collect enough resources to support more than 20,000 families in 62 districts of Delhi-NCR, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Chattisgarh and Maharashtra.

As we have entered in COVID-19 Lockdown 4.0, various parts of the country are now divided in three-zones (Red, Orange and Green) depending on the number of Coronavirus patient. Currently, special trains are provided by Railways to support migrant works to reach their home.

After the 45 days, now we have new challenges!
Families supported earlier with a month of ration support are now facing the same food crisis as the source of income is still zero. Now, thousands of migrant workers family will reach their respective home towns, but they still don't have any financial or ration support. As most of them are not paid for the last two months.

Our aim is to support 20,000 new families from most vulnerable social groups particularly migrant labour and also provide support to families how were supported in the first phase. This time support would be required more in the rural area.

Arthan has collaborated with Jan Sahas to provide support in the crowdfunding campaign. They are supporting the team with strategical inputs. Apart from this, they have started a separate crowdfunding campaign to support addition 1000 migrant worker and their families.

Please click the following link to view the collaborative campaign
https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-migrant-workers-1

About Arthan
Arthan is a social enterprise dedicated to strengthening the impact sector through capacity building and consulting support in the areas of human capital, financial planning, strategy and crisis management. However, the current crisis and heartbreaking stories we hear every day has brought home a stark realization, that we must act now and do our part to help those who need it the most - those for whom it’s a matter of survival.

Please click the following links for short videos on our field activities;
https://www.facebook.com/jansahas/videos/3675452352529369/
https://twitter.com/jan_sahas/status/1255860828567293958https://www.facebook.com/jansahas/videos/691960981560404/
https://twitter.com/jan_sahas/status/1254011528782602240

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Update on 26th April 2020

Dear Supporters & Well-wishers

Due to your support for our campaign "Let’s unite and fight against COVID-19 to support the most vulnerable communities" along with more than 600 team members of Jan Sahas working on filed and trying their best to provide support to the most vulnerable social groups particularly migrant labour and their families in 62 districts of Delhi-NCR, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Chattisgarh and Maharashtra, we were able to complete the following task in the last 30 days!

1. Jan Sahas Helpline: As of now we have received 21046 calls for help on our both helplines. Response teams of 28 members are working 24x7 to provide assistance in all possible manners to the communities. All the callers are provided with information related to safety and protection from Coronavirus. Further, they are connected to various government schemes and Jan Sahas relief support team in intervention districts.

2. Immediate Relief Support: Till now Jan Sahas has provided immediate support to 16824 families. Largely three kinds of support were provided to community; food supplies (dry ration for a month), mobile balance and direct bank transfer. Our relief activity was largely focused on venerable social groups like migrant workers, signal women, women-headed households, families of malnourished children, manual scavengers, victims of trafficking and survivors of rape/violence.

State-wise data of families supported:

No.	State	Families
1	Delhi - NCR	4426
2	Maharastra	1662
3	Madhya Pradesh	7782
4	Uttar Pradesh	1684
5	Bihar	421
6	Chattisgarh	100
7	Rajasthan	537
9	TamilNadu	212
	Total	16824

Details of Food & Ration kit provided to each family (for 5 members) for a month support

Type	Particular	Quantity	Rate	Total
Whole Grains	Moong	1.5 kg	100	150
	Rajma/Masoor	1.5 kg	110	165
Staples	Rice	15 kg	30	450
	Daal (Yellow moong/chilka moong)	2.5 kg	100	250
	Oil	1 litter	100	150
	Wheat flour	30 kg	30	900
Spices	Turmeric powder	200 gm	50	50
	Chill powder	200 gm	50	50
	Coriander powder	200 gm	50	50
	Salt	1 kg	20	20
	Total (INR)			2,235

3. Safety Kit distribution: Jan Sahas has provided 5,826 Safety kits to community members and frontline staff (sanitation workers, ICDS Workers, Police, etc). We have ensured that appropriate government guidelines are followed, personal safety measures are taken and physical distancing norms have adhered.

Sr.	Items	Per Packet
1	Sanitizer (per bottle of 100 ml)	1
2	Soap (per packet with 4 soaps)	1
3	Face Mask (5 pieces per family)	5
4	Sanitary Pads	10

Per family kit cost will be Rs.885 per month

4. Mental Health Support: Jan Sahas is providing psychosocial support on call through our 24x7 helplines for survivors in distress. These sessions are usually 30-40 minutes as brief therapy. This involves a) Assessing the needs and concerns of the survivor or caller, b) Protecting them from further harm, c) Helping them to access basic needs, d) Providing practical care and support, e) Listening and helping them feel calm and f) Connecting them to information, services and social support.

5. Research report on Impact of COVID 19: We have conducted a rapid assessment on the Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Internal Migrant Workers through telephonic interviews with 3,196 migrant construction workers from North and Central India between 27th to 29th March 2020 and prepared the "Voices of the Invisible Citizens".
 
6. Web-portal: We have developed a dynamic web portal Kamgar. This is a resource website with all recent and updated information on government rules, orders and guideline by central and state government. It also has a compilation of reports and resources developed by various other stakeholders.

All the donation collected through this campaign will be transferred to Jan Sahas Social Development Society for relief and support to families impacted due to COVID-19.

#VoicesOfInvisibleCitizens
#UniteToSupport

Below are some images of the work conducted so far:


Ration packets for distribution in Maharashtra


Packing of Ration & food supplies in Madhya Pradesh


Ration and food distribution in Maharashtra


Ration and food distribution in Uttar Pradesh


Safety kit for sanitation workers


News Report from Banda District (UP)

News Report from MP


News Report from MP

Update on 6th April 2020

Dear Supporters & Well-wishers

An update on Let’s unit and fight against COVID-19 to support the most vulnerable communities

In the last two weeks:
 
1. Jan Sahas Helpline:  We have received more than 14,000 calls on our both helplines. A response team of 26 members is working 24x7 to provide assistance in all possible manners to the communities.
 
2. Ration safety material support: We have assisted 8,200 plus individuals through cash transfer and ration support. We also collaborated with other corporates, CSR and individual supporters for sponsoring ration and safety material support (such as mask, sanitisers and soap). With our frontline team in few states and association with CBO’s and volunteers we also reached out the places were our team was not available. In the next week, we are trying to support 12,000 more families as we have received a lot of requests of families stuck at various locations.
 
3. Research report on Impact of COVID 19: We have conducted a rapid assessment on the Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Internal Migrant Workers through telephonic interviews with 3,196 migrant construction workers from North and Central India between 27th to 29th March 2020 and prepared the "Voices of the Invisible Citizens".
 
 4. Web-portal: We have developed dynamic web portal Kamgar. This is a resource website with all recent and updated information on government rules, orders and guideline by central and state government. It also has a compilation of reports and resources developed by various other stakeholders.

#VoicesOfInvisibleCitizens


Below are some images of the work conducted so far:



Awareness Camp at Jhabua



Food Packets for Migrant Workers



Ration Support in Delhi Construction Sites



Ration support in Mumbai and Thane region


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