Following are some ventures to provide food and other essentials to daily wage workers:
LISTINGS
Following are some ventures to provide food and other essentials to the daily wage workers.
Elixir Foundation
is helping migrant daily wage workers with food and other necessities. Before the lockdown, they had crowd funded resources and now, one call from you can keep a family safe.
Contact: +919016558924
Jana Gana Mana Yana
Jana Gana Mana Yana is an organization working for the benefit of migrant labourers in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. They currently have 300 food kits of 4 kg wheat flour, 4 kg rice and 2 kg daal to give to the needy.
Contact: +919542729049 or call Nandubhai Menat at +919327554246
Soul Connect
Contact Soul Connect for free food and other essentials in Jamalpur district at 9275047215
Infoanalytica Foundation
is providing free food to different slum areas of the city and also holding regular kit distribution campaigns.
Contact: +919727988901
Snehalaya
aims to provide midday meals to the worst hit sections of the society during the lockdown.
Contact : +919011020173
Mahila Housing Sew
Trust is providing free food, Ration and sanitation kits the poor communities living in the city.
Contact: +919825029281 or +917926587725
Saath
Saath is committed to provide support till the last mile by procuring and disbursing Ration Kits to the most vulnerable ones.
The Institute of Social Studies and Transformation
The institute of social studies and transformation(IST), an initiative of city based NGO Janvikas, is working in close coordination with deputy commissioner of police, Zone 5 to provide food to migrants twice a day through 15 self-run kitchens.
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Elixir Foundation
Elixir Foundation is a youth run organization and an initiative by the president awardees of the government of India aiming to create potential young leaders in the community by engaging them in community service. We are helping the needy and vulnerable who have been impacted by COVID-19 lock down in Ahmedabad and in Gujarat.
Elixir is launching a fund raising platform #AhmedabadFightsCorona to collect donations for our effort to reach out to our fellow human beings who are struggling in the present conditions.
The funds will be used for:-
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Daily wage labourers
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Old age homes
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Shelter homes
The following are the other youth run organizations that will be joining the campaign:-
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Ahmedabad Global Shapers (AGS)
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Hearty Mart
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Communicate Karo
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Amdavad Rockets
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HeyHi Foundation
Let’s join our hands to do our bit for “Aapnau Amdavad”.
Youth organizations from all over the state have joined hands with Elixir Foundation for the campaign #AhmedabadFightsCorona
DISPATCHES
Snehalaya
works towards ensuring a life free from inequality, cruelty and discrimination for every women and child. As Snehalaya already works in 6 of Ahmednagar’s slums, we have committed to providing the 17000 families living in the city’s 17 official slums plus female sex workers and the transgender community with enough food to see them through this crisis. Contact: +919011020173
Techkitchen Foundation
supplies fresh cooked food to senior citizens, Slum areas and students who are not getting food. Supply of Medicines and veggies for the senior citizens if request received. We have already distributed over 4000+ food packets across Ahmedabad to senior citizens, PG students, slum areas, and 500+ Milk tetra packs to slum children. The following items have been provided so far:-
Rice 1.5kg
Toor Dal - 0.5kg
Atta - 3kg
Oil - 1ltr
Sugar - 1kg
Turmeric - 100gm
Chilly -100gm
Salt - 1kg
We would need help from all of you so that we can help as many people during this critical situation of Covid 19. We would highly appreciate any kind of help.
Contact: +918306596333 or mail us at ankit_231091@yahoo.co.in
CORPORATE INITIATIVES
Adani Foundation
has contributed Rs 5 crore to Gujarat CM Relief Fund and Rs 1 crore the Maharashtra CM Relief Fund. Contributions also made to Kattupalli District Collector COVID-19 Fund and the Bhadra District Administration.
It has also providing 100 ventilators to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation immediately followed with PPEs (Personal Protective Equipments) and N-95 Masks. Women cooperatives aided by Adani Saksham produced more than 1.2 lakhs masks. While business canteens are cooking healthy food for truck drivers and the labourers, essentials across Ahmedabad are being delivered through Adani Gas-fuelled CNG autos.
The Adani Group, a $15 Bn conglomerate that runs critical infrastructure assets in India has led this proactive fight from the front. From contributing financial aid needed to mobilize actions at the ground level to pulling together resources from businesses and participation of its massive India workforce in ensuring that essential goods and services are delivered to Indian homes, the Adani Group has worked as one collective force fighting COVID19.
Financial aid – INR 114 Crores donated to central and state governments of India
Relief material – Masks, ventilators, protective gear and food distributed
Whether it is about donating 100 ventilators to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation along with PPEs (Personal Protective Equipments) and N-95 Masks or activating women co-operative groups aided by Adani Saksham (the Adani Skill Development unit) to produce lakhs of safety masks for free dissemination at remote sites across the country, it has been consistently working to ensure public safety.
Healthcare- A dedicaed hospital to combat COVID19
The Adani GK General Hospital in Bhuj has emerged as a lifeline for Corona-feared people in Kutch, India’s largest district. Being the first ever Public-Private-Partnership (PPP)-run hospital of the country, it was turned into the only fully-equipped facility in the region to treat patients infected by Corona virus.
Soon after the World Health Organization declared COVID19 as a pandemic, the hospital created dedicated quarantine facilities for suspected patients and positive cases. It also deployed a dedicated team of doctors and healthcare professional.
GOVERNMENT EFFORTS
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)
regularly provides food and essentials to remote parts of the city through packed rations and kits taking on the responsibility to feed the needy at these difficult times.
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They have even launched a new portal which spreads awareness to raise funds for the Chief Minister Relief Fund.