Providing food assistance and helping to sustain a means of communication during Covid 19

• Project achieved more than set target – increased number of beneficiary households (123 to 321), increased quantity of food distributed (2460 kgs to 3264 kgs).
• Established alternative communication system through online meetings, telephonic conversation and group calls for regular and required communication.
• Project also helped in raising consciousness among people about safety measures to be taken like handwashing, keeping distance minimum of 1 meter while meeting people in public places, using face masks, maintaining personal hygiene, no gatherings during lockdown.
• Project could cover most needy people as elders, single women/ heads, wage workers, pregnant women/ women in postnatal care, and differently abled people were given first priority for food assistance.
• Community level DRRM committees were formed and taking initiations for further planning to address calamity issues.