Food Security India Project #48172

1m meals for excluded women & children

by Apne Aap USA

Project Report | Apr 29, 2021
India Covid Relief for girls update

By Praveen | Project leader

Woman with food packet

We have provided food, medicines, housing support, school supplies, to 57,739 women and children in red-light areas, migrant slums and refugee camps. The food is in the form of dry ration kits that contain rice, dal, onions, potatoes, cooking oil, salt, sugar and spices. each kit has enough ration for 100 meals.In total we provided 5.4 million meals and 200,000 kits of medicines and sanitary pads.

In addition we put in soap, sanitizers, masks and essential medicines like paracetemol and vitamins, as well as sanitary pads.

In April, a devastating second wave of Covid has hit with a virulent virus. 2,000 deaths and 350,000 new infections are reported every day. In the red-light area, where we work, children have lost a parent or parents have lost all livelihood.

Their schools are closed and they are sent back to the red light area. Lack of food has become a major issue, as has housing. Fresh air is a luxury. Wi-fi and computers are a fry cry for most children to access online education.

Some women have committed suicide. The crematoriums are too full too accommodate them.

In this scenario, Apne Aap has been ensuring food and medicines, of course. In addition, we have also begun to provide connection and transportation for vaccinations and hospital referrals. For some of the children we have found safe housing.

I will share the story of two girls as an example. One is in Class 12 and one is in Class 8.

Their school shut down in the devastating second wave and they were sent back home. Home was a small room in the red light area. The room also served as the brothel for their mother. Unable to look after her children, the mother had run away.

Predators began to ask the children to act in sex videos in return for food.

Luckily an Apne Aap community mobilser was able to find a rental accommodation far from the red light area for the chidren. Apne Aap was able to to also send them groceries, a wi-fi dongle and computer. We were also able to find students to teach them online.

They are safe, healthy and studying.

There are 6 million children of the 230 million vulnerable children in India, who will not go back to school due to lack of food. we are helping some of them in the red-light areas of Delhi, Kolkata and Bihar. Help us help the most excluded women and children in this devastating Covid pandemic.

Our food van

A ration kit

women with our ration kits

Food distribution

Studying safely

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Nov 30, 2020
Impact Report of 1m meals food drive for women

By Praveen Kumar | Project Manager

Victim of Sex-Trafficking in Kolkata with food kit

We have distributed more than 1.8 million meals and hygiene kits to more than twenty-five thousand women and children in Kolkata, Forbesganj, Bihar and Delhi, far exceeding our project target of 1 million meals to 10,000 excluded women and children. In addition, we have distributed more than 4 million meals and hygiene kits in Jharkhand: (Ranchi and Singhbhoom), Maharashtra (Kamathipura and Bhiwandi red light areas), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow, Ghaziabad and Noida).

Our total number of meals, sanitary pads and medicines distributed since the Covid pandemic hit India has crossed 5 million. We have supported more than 50,000 beneficiaries. Our meals are distributed in food bags that contain dry rations for 100 meals. Our hygiene kits contain sanitary pads, medicines, soap and towels.

The areas covered under the GlobalGiving project are: 1.Bihar (Red Light Areas of Uttari Rampur in Forbesganj; Mela Ground, JummanChowk and FCI Chowk in Forbesganj; Jokihat in Araria; Barsoi and Katihar; Kishanganj; Muzaffarpur and Danapur Railway Station). 2. Delhi and Haryana (Sapera and PernaBasti in Najafgarh; Sadar Bazar; GoylaGaon in Nangloi; Slums near AIIMS Trauma Centre; Kathputli Colony; Rohingya camp in ShaheenBagh; Red Light Area of G.B. Road; Gurgaon,)3. Kolkata, West Bengal (Red light areas in Munshiganj, Sonagachi and Sethbagan; rag-picking communities living near Park Circus Railway Station; people living under the bridges of Hastings in Kolkata; the plantation workers of tea gardens in Siliguri.)

Our community mobilisers partnered with student volunteers, local NGOs and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to distribute food to excluded women and children, primarily victims of sex-trafficking, migrant women, landless agricultural workers, rag-pickers and Rohingya refugees.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage, these vulnerable women and children are hurting. There is a dramatic increase in requests for food. Due to the increased demand and the unanticipated need to continue our food distribution, we request your donation, once again.

Do help us keep the kitchen fires going during this holday season for the most excluded women and children affected by the Covid pandemic. Your support has staved off starvation, kept children alive, and mothers able to survive. From now until Nov 30, Giving Tuesday, your donation will be matched. Donate and double your impact.

We took food to villages cut off by road

Food distribution in Bihar red-light area

We took food to villages along river banks

Migrant women got our food kits too

Children after taking food kits home

A glimpse into our food kit

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