After TOI report, Rotary Club gives ration kits to slum dwellers
Nagpur: The Covid lockdown has hit slum dwellers hard, said Kabir Madavi, a daily wager from Siddheshwari Nagar slums in the city. “Not only have most slum dwellers lost their jobs, they have exhausted all their meagre savings and many have sold whatever little valuables they had to buy food in the absence of any government help,” he said. The situation is the same for most other slum dwellers.Now, Rotary Club of Nagpur Vision (RCNV) has pitched in to help residents of this slum by raising funds to buy ration kits for them. On Wednesday, they distributed kits to the slum dwellers, comprising ration and other items of daily use.
A fortnight after Maharashtra’s current Covid-19 restrictions came into force, TOI had reported on the plight of city’s slum dwellers as they have begun to go hungry again.
After TOI’s report, some citizens felt the need to do something to provide ration kits to dwellers of Siddeshwari Nagar slum.
Donations poured in from various quarters, even working adults, children and friends of some TOI readers from abroad, contributed with open hands. Members of RCNV raised a handsome amount. Center for Sustainable Development volunteered to help manage distribution of grocery kits.
Jatin Sampat, president, RCNV, and Leena Buddhe of Center for Sustainable Development, were present to oversee the distribution of grocery kits to people of Siddeshwari Nagar slum.
The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown has affected us in many ways, but it has affected the poor and marginalised sections of the society the most. “It has resulted in an economic crisis, resulting in loss of livelihoods of daily wage workers and migrant labourers,” said Buddhe.
Kabir Madavi and other dwellers from the slum expressed gratitude to RCNV members for their generous help.
A fortnight after Maharashtra’s current Covid-19 restrictions came into force, TOI had reported on the plight of city’s slum dwellers as they have begun to go hungry again.
Like in 2020, this year too the city witnessed lockdown like restrictions from March, but there were no arrangements for free ration kits or cooked food for people staying in city’s slums. Dwellers were asking whether daily supply of even khichdi could be arranged as was done during the 2020 lockdown?
After TOI’s report, some citizens felt the need to do something to provide ration kits to dwellers of Siddeshwari Nagar slum.
Donations poured in from various quarters, even working adults, children and friends of some TOI readers from abroad, contributed with open hands. Members of RCNV raised a handsome amount. Center for Sustainable Development volunteered to help manage distribution of grocery kits.
Jatin Sampat, president, RCNV, and Leena Buddhe of Center for Sustainable Development, were present to oversee the distribution of grocery kits to people of Siddeshwari Nagar slum.
The coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown has affected us in many ways, but it has affected the poor and marginalised sections of the society the most. “It has resulted in an economic crisis, resulting in loss of livelihoods of daily wage workers and migrant labourers,” said Buddhe.
Kabir Madavi and other dwellers from the slum expressed gratitude to RCNV members for their generous help.
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