Relief Effort in Dehradun

Help us support 300 daily wagers and their families in the resource poor and low income areas of Deep Nagar and Badripur in Dehradun, Uttarakhand and some other daily wagers from across the country (Delhi, Haryana, Jaipur, Mumbai) who are reaching out to us, as they struggle to meet their basic needs due to no work during the Covid19 lockdown. The Dehradun relief will be facilitated by friends and volunteers who have worked in this area and the all-India support will go through the Kriti team members, volunteers and friends.

 This per month, ration package will include 10 kg aata (flour), 5 kg rice, 2 kg dal (lentils), 1/2 kg salt, 2 kg sugar, 500 grams tea, 2 litre oil, 2 soaps and 1 packet of sanitary napkins. For those who would like some other ration or item, we will try to substitute or add if funds permit. Mobile recharge support is another one we are looking at supporting as it is one big enabler in lockdown times for everyone.

Please make a minimum donation of Rs.1500/- per family, per month for atleast three months of rations ideally. We welcome you to support more than one family for one or more months. Alternatively, if you are able to make a donation only for one family for one month, we would welcome that with gratitude on their behalf. Your donations will enable these families to overcome their struggles during and post the lockdown phase.

We hope that you will support this small effort and share it with others too.

Click on this link and help us get relief to the communities

https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-kriti-team

 Update:

With the donations received upto now, the first month of dry ration have been given to 15 women, who are part-domestic workers in  Dehradun.  A commitment has been made to support them for three months with the available donations. These women live in Deepnagar and Badripur areas and have no assurance of salaries from their employers, least of all concern for their wellbeing.Some of them are married, some old, some single  and many face domestic violence regularly.For two of the women, one of whom is single, daily milk has been started for their children below 1 year of age.We are unable to commit milk for families with older children yet unless we are able to raise the donations' amount. The local fieldworkers who gave out the rations have been amazing in the  way they coordinated the disbursal with a lot of care, safety and dignity for the receiving women. Each and every domestic worker whom the team gave out the ration to was extremely grateful for the quantity, quality and range of ration given, unlike as one woman said 'sarkar ne ek mahina pehle 1 kg chawal diya tha'. Some of the women became deeply emotional as they accepted the rations and thanked the team for supporting them in this  situation. We have had calls from over 50 more women already, but have not been able to respond directly. So now, we are trying to get other local organisations to support with dry rations (whatever they are able to give for now), but this is not sustainable  at all. With Labour Day coming on 1st May, and another month starting and  more women to reach in Dehradun and other areas, we look forward to new and more donors, with as small a contribution of Rs.100/- which will slowly  make it possible for us to reach more people for a long time. Please share this appeal with others and enable us to support the women who labour for so many of us in non-covid times!