COVID 19 EMERGENCY FUND for Nandri Mothers

Like many countries throughout the world, India is seeing its 3rd wave of Covid infections.  The Nandri villages had experienced a large reduction in the number of people getting Covid but unfortunately in recent weeks this has changed.  The larger cities near the Nandri villages are experiencing a substantial growth in the number of infections. And our villagers are once again dealing with Covid infections in their families.  Unfortunately the world is realising that Covid has not gone away.  

Education is vital.  We have continued with our education programme for our mothers and their children.  We teach them the important guidelines to avoid infection. We have provided them with masks and instruct them in the importance of getting vaccinated, hygiene, social distancing and following all the government guidelines in order to stay healthy. 

The economic damage that Covid has caused to our poor families is enormous.  Their daily wage jobs have disappeared and they are struggling to survive and feed their impoverished families.  Nandri has continued to give our families financial aid to help them survive the pandemic, feed their children and keep them in education.  We provide meals and food packages for those in need and offer hope, support and a sense of community to them in this very difficult time. 

We can only help our families with your generous support.  We thank you on behalf of our mothers and their families. With your donations we have helped our children and their parents survive.  On behalf of all the people your genorosity has supported, we say a big thank you from the bottom of our hearts.  

The number of Covid19 infections among our mothers and their families continues to fall and importantly the number of those very ill with the virus has reduced substantially.  Our education programme has been very effective in curbing the numbers of people in our villages infected with Covid19.  

We have continued with this important innitiative and in February Joe our director held an awareness and educational meeting for our mothers in the village of Kolappalur.  Joe explained the importance of getting vaccinated, it's safeness  and also how vital it is to maintain a very high level of hygiene to prevent the spread of the virus.  

Nandri in partnership with the local government has organised 100 vaccination camps over the last number of months in the Tamil Nadu region.  The village of Kolapppalur has been very receptive to the education programme provided by Nandri and there is now a 95 per cent uptake of the vaccine among the villagers.  

Life in our Nandri villages has returned to normal in the last few weeks as the infection rate has subsided.  Our mothers and their families are very grateful for the educational support  and practical food and financial aid  Nandri has provided through this very difficult time.