COVID – 19 in India has deprived many poor families of their income as they are all at home in lockdown situation. Their earning members some of whom are migrant labour , are stuck in remote cities. We are anguished to see many of their children slipping into malnutrition. Pregnant and lactating mothers in these families are going hungry. This will compromise their immune response and make them more susceptible to the virus.
At the beginning of the lockdown, IFIE reached out to the communities that we were already serving and provided the families with dry ration kits. Distribute food kits and hygiene kits to other migrant communities. “We’re also committed to continuing our fight against hunger, so we’re keeping our programmer running through this new crisis.
Through our collective effort, we were able to reach about 76,500 families with dry ration kits, supporting over 1.5 lakh people