Our Cowin warrior Ramashsish from Mosaboni block, East Singhbhum, Jharkhand noticed that many poor in his area were having to go hungry and were also being exposed to the virus because of not having proper shelter. He immediately entered their need on I-CAN and got to work, collecting resources to procure grains, masks and soap for the poor and distributing the same to around 60 people in need in that area.
Many families of daily earners and casual labourers in Jorasanko, Kolkata were left with no means to earn and get food in wake of the COVID lockdown. Their plight was informed to CoWin warrior Anirban in Kolkata. He got in contact with Mr Sunil Harsh, President of Jorasanko Nabayubak Sangha. Mr Sunil and local youth volunteers of his organisation started work in the area distributing around 70 food packets daily since the lockdown. The coordination between his volunteers and our warriors ensured that these people were fed. Mr Sunil Harsh has also extended assistance to the people in the area by arranging ambulances, medicines for those in need and delivering groceries to senior citizens in the area, so far serving 563 people.
In the Kottaudi village of Bodinayakkanur taluk, Theni, Tamil Nadu Mr Mumuyandi’s was in distress, being a daily wager he was unable to earn in the lockdown. His family had almost run out of food and his neighbours in the community were similarly poor and did not have enough to help his family for long. His need came on to the I-CAN portal and was immediately informed to R. Suresh, our cowin warrior in Theni, tamil nadu. On the same day he delivered ration and food articles including rice, fresh vegetables and salt, masala powder, to Mr Mumuyandi’s family.
Sagar Pawar, our CoWin warrior from Thane, Maharashtra was crossing through a construction site at Uttan chowk in Thane and saw a few workers at the site. Being a warrior, he could not ignore what he saw and hence stopped to check on the labourers who were at the construction site. Upon initial inquiries he got know that as many 12 construction workers, mostly form West Bengal, were stuck at the site without food and money, because of the lockdown. Sagar instantly contacted his cousin to assist him in procuring food and ration for these people. The two them handed over food and ration supplies enough to last at least a month, which included, rice, flour, pulse and vegetables, to the migrant workers
In Medak, Telengana labourers and self employed vendors were finding it hard to quench their hunger. This requirement was informed to CoWin warrior Gundu Prudvi Raj. He then coordinated with local political activists to distribute food to about 50 labourers and vendors from Medak.
Our Co-Win warrior Sreenivasulu from Galiveedu, Cuddapah, Andhra Pradesh, was informed through I-CAN that many daily wagers in ST colony of Galiveedu were unable to procure food. He immediately arranged funds by contributing himself and asking his friends and family to contribute. Sreeni then procured rice and vegetables for 70 families of the ST colony and distributed the same to them, ensuring they can feed themselves during the lockdown.
In Jharkhand’s Gumla district, 12 labourers were in desperate need of essential food articles. There need was submitted on the ICAN portal and then forwarded to our local warrior Shashank Raj in Gumla city. Upon receiving the information, Shashank started arranging food and staples for them. Many community members came forward for help upon his initiation and in no time essential food supplies were handed over to the 12 labourers.
Co-Win waririor Shipra Tripathi was infromed about by her cook that around 10 families of laboueres in her locality of Aghaphur settlement (behind Nodia Sec. 40) were starving without food and regularly skipping meals. She immediate steeped in to help them at her own expense, procuring ration and staples for the 10 families and getting it delivered on that day itself.
Three familes in Indore, Madhya pradesh needed food and ration, and their requirement was posted on the ICAN portal. The central team forwarded the requiremnt to the local warrior in indore, Veer Singh. Warrior Veer coordinated with his friend Manjit Garg, to make sure food packets and ration is deliverd to the families of Promod Singh, Shivani Jain and Monti in Indore.
Harshil Agrawal, cowin warrior from Chhatarpur, Madhya pradesh got the information through the ICAN portal regarding the urgent medical requirement for a female patient suffering from brain tumor posted by her son Ved, a local resident of Chhatarpur. They were not getting the required medicine locally, So Harshil made all the possible efforts to arrange the medicines for her. Within 3-4 days he managed to get the medicines from Sagar, Madhya Pradesh via a government ambulance which was returning after dropping a patient there, and delivered the same to Ved
An NGO under the I-CAN network, the Global Human Rights Association (GHRA) in Hyderabad, Telengana was approached by Ms Mallika Reddy to provide food for the sweepers of Municipal corporation who were still working despite the lockdown. The 35 women sweepers (working on contract) used the clean a 3 Km stretch starting in the early hours of the morning and finishing around 7 am. Afterwards they used to get their breakfast roadside restaurants. For the lockdown there was no breakfast available and the women were force to go back hungry. On getting to know about it, Mr Babu Miriyam ~ a CoWin warrior himself, who run (GHRA) immediately responded and arranged food parcels of healthy breakfast from a home kitchen, which would be continue served till the lockdown continues.
Amidst the Corona shut down Soni jain from Agra, like many unorganized labourers, had ran out of money and ration to continue feeding her family. Her need for essential food items was informed to the network. Co-Win warriors from UP Aushutosh and Rohan coordinated with the UP team of volunteers and local administration to get ration supplies delivered to her house.
