In a single day, the Trust has offered dry rations to 127 families of Sector-49 of Noida and Salarpur area (Sector-81) for the needy who had no other options but to deal with hunger. The people were supplied each 15 kgs of wheat, 2 kgs of pulses and a half kg of salt.
The lockdown has put these families of daily labourers, rag pickers and migrant workers in immense trouble as neither can they go outside to work, nor they can arrange food.
“Many such families are being identified and dry food rations have been provided from our organization,” says Ms Ruchi Kashyap, Executive Trustee of Atmashakti Trust.
Due to the pandemic situation, thousands of such rag-pickers, migrant labourers and daily wage labourer’s families are starving and desperate for food to survive. Our team is at the ground to see who are the most vulnerable and supporting with dry food rations at least to spare till the lockdown removed. As a civil society organization, we can’t allow these people to starve. Rather, we should support as many people as we can in this trying times when these people need us the most, adds Ms Kashyap.
Under #MissionRahat campaign, over 9000 thousand COVID-19 families have been so far helped with dry rations in Noida region and Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh.