The nationwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic affected people, especially the marginalized communities, daily wagers, informal and migrant workers, etc, needed to be helped with immediate support for sustenance. Therefore, JVS, with like-minded social and educational institutions in Varanasi, kick-started the relief work campaign on 25th March 2020. We initially began with cooked food and then moved on to dry ration kits, including rice, wheat flour, cooking oil, pulse, salt, potato, onion, biscuits, soap, and face mask, costing Rs.600 per kit. Until 03 June 2020, we reached out to 14,853 families, including returnee migrants in the Varanasi and Jaunpur districts of Uttar Pradesh. The campaign was financially supported by hundreds of individuals and organizations from within the country and institutional donors abroad like, Missio M\u00fcnchen, Germany, Manos Unidas, Spain, Friends and well-wishers from Belfast, N. Ireland, etc. A special word of appreciation to all the volunteers who worked hard packing and distributing relief materials to the needy despite the risk involved. Liliane Foundation, the Netherlands, extended special support to families of persons with disabilities affected by COVID-19. Through this support, we, in partnership with 57 partner organizations in 13 states of North and North East India reached out to 5,478 families of children and youngsters with disabilities.<\/p>\n

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The nationwide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic affected people, especially the marginalized communities, daily wagers, informal and migrant workers, etc, needed to be helped with immediate support for sustenance. Therefore, JVS, with like-minded social and educational institutions in Varanasi, kick-started the relief work campaign on 25th March 2020. We initially began with cooked food and then moved on to dry ration kits, including rice, wheat flour, cooking oil, pulse, salt, potato, onion, biscuits, soap, and face mask, costing Rs.600 per kit. Until 03 June 2020, we reached out to 14,853 families, including returnee migrants in the Varanasi and Jaunpur districts of Uttar Pradesh. The campaign was financially supported by hundreds of individuals and organizations from within the country and institutional donors abroad like, Missio M\u00fcnchen, Germany, Manos Unidas, Spain, Friends and well-wishers from Belfast, N. Ireland, etc. A special word of appreciation to all the volunteers who worked hard packing and distributing relief materials to the needy despite the risk involved. Liliane Foundation, the Netherlands, extended special support to families of persons with disabilities affected by COVID-19. Through this support, we, in partnership with 57 partner organizations in 13 states of North and North East India reached out to 5,478 families of children and youngsters with disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janvikassamiti.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janvikassamiti.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janvikassamiti.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janvikassamiti.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janvikassamiti.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/janvikassamiti.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6562,"href":"https:\/\/janvikassamiti.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions\/6562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janvikassamiti.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}