Covid 19 Response

Covid 19 Response

Covid 19 Response

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Emergency humanitarian relief & restoration of economy through livelihood promotion

In early 2020, the country has faced an unprecedented disaster in form of the COVID-19 (corona virus) threat.  As the social distancing is the only solution to contain the spread of COVID-19, our government , on 22nd March 2020, announced a 21 days lockdown which was further extended till 3rd May 2020.

The lockdown had some serious economic and social impacts that threatened the very survival for marginalised & vulnerable people. Families dependent on daily wages for food & other essential items lost their livelihoods and could not access even the most essential food items.

In this difficult time, as a social development agency, our team conducted a rapid assessment of requirements in our project locations with local administration and accordingly planted our response teams on ground.

Our response to COVID-19

Phase 1

Seven sutra programme

Awareness campaign & quadrantal centre

Set up a
community kitchen

Distributed food kits

Built capacities of community cadres

Distributed COVID protection kits

Community
food banks

Supporting local adminstration

On-ground stories

Our intervention had three aspects  – immediate humanitarian relief (ensuring food security through distribution of essential items, awareness, sanitisation and PPE kits), access to services and entitlement (through active engagement with local administration) and economic restoration in the long run (through livelihoods promotion).

Community kitchen

We set up a community kitchen in Dholpur, Datia and Chittorgarh where we distributed over 15,000 food packets (700 packets per day.)

Masks

As the COVID-19 crisis continued to loom over us, the short fall of masks & other essential items led to more panic. Our women at the textile units quickly learnt how to make masks and produced over 78000 masks that were distributed to local communities.

No one sleeps hungry

Hunger is a biggest crime on earth, and no one should sleep hungry. Our team conceived the Sakhi food bank idea. We reached out 60 villages and collected 8 tonnes grain and and essentials for distribution to needy families.

Food kits

2000 uncooked foods packets containing wheat flour, rice, dal, tea, spices, vegetables, biscuits, and soaps, etc.) were distributed to the neediest people in Dholpur and Chittorgarh.

Volunteers deployed

We stayed in constant touch with the district administration for any help they required and deployed our staff as volunteers in Banks, PDS etc.

Spreading awareness

Chetna Rath – capitalising on our strong presence in the field, we sensitised communities about to follow COVID protocols properly and oriented them on guidelines released by national and state governments.

MIdday meals

All Anganwadi centers were closed, severely affecting the nutrition of children as the midday meal programme was interupted. To tackle this issue, we provided cooked food to Anganwari children and pregnant mothers across our project locations.

Supporing migrant labour

We extended support to migrant workers in the Gram Panchayat and government managed quarantine and isolation facilities. We also developed our own quarantine centers.

Job creation

We supported the local community by helping them access jobs through MNREGA and other govt schemes. This included providing relevant information, filing applications and completing documentation. We also provided logistics support at MGNREGA sites. This was done by actively involving local panchayats and community stakeholders.

Covid diary

Hindustand Express

Khabar Sprat

Lupin & Manajri Foundation

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What people say

  • Nusrat Pathan
    We are happy to collaborate with Manjari Foundation under Social Initiative Parivartan. Parivartan and Manjari share a common goal of bringing about a comprehensive and sustainable development at the grassroots. The partnership has brought about a positive change through several thematic interventions including micro-enterprise development, capacity building, health, and education. As a result of this initiative, we have seen effective community engagement and empowerment and the resident of Dholpur district (Rajasthan) continue to get benefitted. We will continue to work on similar projects to improve the lives of the less privileged through our Holistic Rural Development Programme.
    Ms Nusrat Pathan, Head Corporate Social Responsibility, HDFC Bank
  • ‘Sakhi’ means a friend in Hindi, someone who stands by in trying times and during jubilations too. 26500+ women from across 2212 SHG’s and 6 Federation have come together to be the same for each other by making Micro Finance work for them. Sakhi is a platform of rural women which aims at economic well-being, reduction in poverty, self-dependence, and development of personal and social standing in the society through establishing Micro Finance and Micro Enterprises. Hindustan Zinc Limited together with its partners Saheli Sameti and Manjari Foundation are working towards unlocking their potential and empowering them to lead as Enablers.
    Mrs. Anupama Nidhi, CSR HEAD HZL
  • Manjari Foundation is IPE Global’s implementation partner in Dholpur, Rajasthan under the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), UK supported Project Udaan that aims at reducing teenage pregnancies. They have been instrumental in successfully piloting interventions for improving the knowledge of adolescents around sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in Bari block of Dholpur. Their efforts in organizing a team to take up the issue of adolescent SRH and facilitating its implementation with great sensitivity across the block has not only been recognized by the district administration, but has also paved way for attempting a scale-up across the district. Their coordination with the community-level institutions, local government bodies and the target group has been noteworthy and exemplary.
    Mr. Ashish Banerjee, IPE Global
  • Without larger vision and dedication of the team of MF and its leadership, both vertical and horizontal growth would have never been possible to pick up at this level in this short history of its evolution. Since I have been associated with the Sakhi project of MF funded by Hindustan Zinc for the last 2 years, the happiness and confidence seen in their faces of hundreds of women in the villages proves its vitality. I have also witnessed the UN-women funded second chance education project (SCE) being implemented in 3 districts under the guidance of PRADAN is a much worthy to reach out to those young women in the age group of 16-35 who have been deprived in their childhood with the education, skills and employment are now happily enrolled and trained to overcome these deprivations with much positive outcome. While writing all these statements, I recall each visit to the project area to witness the change processes that were taking place within those women who had never dreamed of being so empowered and self-reliant so soon in their lifetimes.
    Binod Raj Dahal, Integrator- PRADAN
  • Our collaboration with Manjari has allowed us to better understand the approach of solidarity groups and concretely towards the empowerment of women in the commune of Logo.The participation of Indian PRCs has been beneficial because the women have appropriated easily by seeing that they are rural women Indian women who share their experiences with them. The Camide team was formed by the professionals of Manjari with enthusiasm and professionalism and is able to reproduce most of the activities. This period of collaboration opens up prospects for our two structures to replicate the model in Mali and Africa. We again thank Manjari for all the efforts made for Camide and particularly the Director Sanjay Kumar. We were able to reach more than 2,500 women and more than 180 million CFA francs of credit granted four test henhouses substantial support for the winter and market gardening campaign in terms of results thank you.
    Mr. Aou Keita, Director Camide, Kayes, Mali, West Africa
  • Development of Corporate Citizenship (DoCC), the social internship program of SPJIMR has been collaborating with Manjari Foundation since 2015. This has been fruitful relationship for us. I want to emphasise the four following themes. First the internships give our students a different idea of leadership which also gives them a sense of requirements for the future and adds to the ethics of sociological content. The participants acquire a notion of innovation- both social and technical which gives them a systemic view of the society. Such an empirical location gives them both a sense of limits and possibilities of what they can do. Environmental consciousness and gender sensitivity constitute two critical parts of social responsibility as we define it today. The participants of the internship understand what these key concepts mean in everyday sense. Internship at Manjari adds to their imagination in this direction. We value this relationship.
    Dr. Chandrika Parmar, S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research

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