By Francesca Pellegatta | Junior Project Leader
Thousands of people die every day in India due to extreme poverty and diseases, such as tuberculosis, typhus and cholera, which in the Western world have now been eradicated for decades. To all this was added the Covid-19 pandemic, which with this third wave is literally plaguing a population already at the end of its strength. World Health Organization currently reports 20millions confirmed cases with more than 222thousand deaths. Hospitals in large cities, such as New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, find themselves without beds available and short of oxygen. A black market has even developed in some drugs reported by the Ministry of Health as effective in treating the infection from Covid-19.
The city of Mumbai is in total collapse: many families remain outside the hospitals for hours without ever receiving treatments, there are endless lines of symptomatic people waiting for a swab, the crematoria suffer from the excess of corpses, the price of fuel and food has risen and unfortunately many people have lost their job. This whole situation continues to weigh especially on those people who were poor even before the pandemic.
In Mumbai there is still a partial lockdown: you can only go out from 7 to 11 in the morning and few manage to keep their jobs through smart working and / or to study thanks to distant learning. Unfortunately, schools are closed again throughout the country and thousands of children are once again forced to stay at home without being able to study or even worse on the streets without a safe shelter.
Even in South India everything has stopped again: although the situation in Tamil Nadu is slightly better than in Maharashtra thanks to a more robust health system and a lower population density, in Nagercoil the positive cases continue to increase and our tailoring and IT courses for women were once again suspended.
Covid-19 has shown how we are all linked by the same destiny and how each person is fragile in his or her human dimension. Aleimar and our local partners will always help all the women involved in the project and also thanks to your fundamental support we hope that all the courses will restart as soon as possible in safety conditions.
By Silvia Felici | Junior Project leader
By Michelle Dovi Klouvi | junio project manager
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