Lockdown in India has affected
the lives of many people adversely, worst are the daily wagers, who earn and
eat on daily basis. Now with no job and money in hand they are forced to fight
a battle against starvation too along with corona. Many people weren’t aware about their plight
until NDTV brought their stories before the nation.
Nation was so moved by the plight
of these people, who were forced to be without food that both government and NGOs
thronged in to action to ensure, no one goes to bed without food. Many NGOs took up the responsibility to
provide food the needy abiding by the norms of the administration.
There were challenges before the
NGOs before they could venture out to support the needy people, first of course
was funds, then grocery, data of people, resources for both delivery as well as
for cooking. Funds were collected through facebook postings and WhatsApp share,
since all payments were digital. it was directly credited to the account of
NGOs.
Once funds were arranged NGOs
were able to procure grocery easily but the biggest challenge for them was to
find helping hands to prepare food, pack food and deliver them to the needy people.
When the cause is to serve manhood, there’s nothing stopping you, same was the
case with NGOs too, since most people were at home with no worthy activities to
get involved in, they extended their support to these NGOs.
Once the food was read NGOs had
another challenge waiting for them, which was to identify areas where people
are stranded without food and non-restrictive movement of their vehicles within
city. Since people had pooled in to support NGOs in their cause, they took up
this responsibility too, so that food is prepared on priority without thinking
about delivery and areas to be delivered.
With the support of masses NGOs
got details of people struck at various places across city and NGOs also
procured passes for their vehicles to move freely within city limits. With all
such details in hand, NGO workers and volunteers ventured into roads to feed
food to the needy people.
During their distribution process
they came across people stranded at both railway and bus stations with no
support from anyone. For them volunteers from these NGOs were no less than
messengers from god, some even that felt their prayers have been answered.
People who went to distribute
food to these people on the first day, were so moved by witnessing the
difficulty of these under privileged people, that they decided to be available for
these people on daily basis till the lockdown period. It really take lot of
courage to do that because these volunteers are at very high risk of getting
infected by the Covid 19, as they come in contact with lot of people on daily
basis and travel extensively to feed the
needy.
Though NGOs are doing their best but
I can’t there mention in media or any other channels, which saddens my heart,
hence I decided to do my bit by writing about them.
Great work to all NGOs across and
their staff for working for serving mankind as always, keep up the good work.
