- Making local support groups with our Community Based Organizations (CBOs), to identify the communities in need and ensure that they have access to Government services in 5 blocks.
- Working with CBOs to identify and list most disadvantaged communities and populations and providing them relief in coordination with district and block administration.
- Developing communication material to create awareness on the hygiene and physical distancing guidelines of the government.
- Reaching out to Women’s and Youth Groups to extend solidarity and share correct information and putting them in touch with local officials/PRIs etc for any emergency situation
- Setting up a small emergency fund with staff members donating a few days of their salary to support relief efforts.
- Apart from creating awareness among the communities, reiterating the need to follow the Govt. Advisories, we have already distributed Dry Ration Kits (Wheat Powder, Dal, Masala, sugar, oil etc.) and sanitation kits to 1800 vulnerable families in Jaipur,Tonk,Baran and Alwar districts. These include:
- Households with disabled and elderly members.
- Women headed households
- Widows
- Landless labourers and daily wage earners including women labourers
- Livestock grazers and nomadic communities like Kalbeliya
- Farmers suffering from crop loss due to the recent hailstorm in Chaksu Efforts are being made to scale this up further.
- Cooked Food is also being provided to migrant laborers in a temporary shelter camp in Chaksu. Initially over 250 migrant workers were provided cooked meals, the number in the camps has now reduced to about 70.
- Daily wage earners in Chaksu have also been provided cooked meals in coordination with the Block administration/local authorities. This has been highlighted not only in the news papers but also received the appreciation of the Communities and the Government.
- CECOEDECON’s Chaksu facility has also been offered to the block administration as a quarantine facility.
- 300 masks have been distributed in Baran district.
- Because of our willingness to support the Government, in most of the working areas we have been identified as the key NGO partner in several blocks and have received special permission from the block administration to move around and undertake various support initiatives independently and also in collaboration with the local authorities.
