Through CII Foundation’s #WomenExemplar initiative, CII is working on relief and rehabilitation interventions including distribution of personal protective equipment, hygiene kits, ration, and daily essential kits.

CIIF #WomanExemplar Kana Mondal is working in the densely populated and impoverished North 24 Parganas & Sunderbans. Fighting on the front lines, supported by Standard Chartered Bank, Kana is mobilizing ration for 400+ destitute families including rickshaw pullers, domestic workers, hawkers and other daily wage workers who have lost their livelihoods in the lockdown and struggling for bare essentials to sustain life.

In another instance, #WomenExemplar Rama Sharma is reaching out to vulnerable Banjara communities in Tonk, Rajasthan. Supported by Standard Chartered Bank and CII Foundation, she is providing Ration and Hygiene kits for a month to these communities.

For the large migrant labor population of Beed, Maharastra, COVID meant undertaking a perilous journey from neighboring sugarcane plantations, going without food for many days, and reaching back to their villages, where again they were shunned and prevented from accessing public sources of water or Kirana stores, for the fear that they might be carriers of infection. Given the traveling that they have been exposed to due to the pandemic.

CIIF #WomanExemplar Manisha Ghule, with her team of volunteers, began distribution of ration and hygiene kits to such vulnerable and shunned populations in Beed Maharashtra. She will reach out to over 5000 migrant laborers and spread awareness about the hygiene mandate to keep covid19 away from the community.

Grassroots women change agents such as Rama, Manisha and Kana are working tirelessly to educate all the people they meet while identifying the most vulnerable families to support them with relief, ration and hygiene kits.

CII with such efforts has so far impacted 1.83 lakh people and distributed more than 1.5 lakh health and hygiene kits, 5050 ration kits and more than 12000 kg food grains.

Know more about it and join the initiative here: https://www.cii.in/covid-19.aspx