In Bharuch Districts there are 250-300 tribal women from different villages who were trained by Gram Vikas Trust in Tailoring and sewing in past years, now taking a step ahead we would want to provide them livelihood opportunity in the pandemic period as they are not able to earn anything in this situation.

These women are initially supported for training of making two fold cloth mask as they are well worse in stitching. It is seen that every women are earning around 5 rupees from each mask that she will stich and making an average of 200-300 rupees as per her skills and willingness.

This indeed will help them to learn new livelihood pattern and have sustainable income generate opportunities.

The prepared cloth mask will be distribute in rural community free of cost by the Gram Vikas Trust, Bharuch.

Village level Volunteers raised awareness on Home Made Mask making and also informed the youth about its need and importance in prevention of COVID-19.

Local youth and people from all walks of life were distributed Face Masks and told to wear it and how to sanitize it after use. Volunteers also created awareness on Social Distancing, Hand Wash and cleanliness and maintenance of personal hygiene in preventing corona virus infection.

Through the discussion both field team and management headed by executive director have seen the needs to start awareness programme in all the 35 villages where we have community facilitator at village level and group of volunteers and decided to prints IEC materials with local language with steps of COVID-19 prevention mechanism Enhance the awareness on spread of COVID-19 in these villages and what are the measures to prevent them, so that the communities stay safe and are healthy.

Life is everyone’s priority now but we all know that due to the Covid-19 second wave in all over India daily wages workers, unorganized labours, hawkers are going through a crucial situation of financial loss and unemployment which leads them to face a difficult situation to fulfill basic needs and safety hygiene measures.

With the support of team members, volunteers, partner organizations, health workers and government channels Gram Vikas Trust, Bharuch has started a campaign ‘Periods Don’t Stop in Covid-19.

Through this campaign Gram Vikas trust is providing ‘Packet of 8 Ultrathin Sanitary Pads’ to the home quarantines, daily wages workers, unorganized labours, homeless people, Women in Rural area, who are unable to maintain their menstrual hygiene because of financial reasons and limited access to the sanitary pads. The organization has already distributed to 5000 adolescent and women in last six month.

It has been decided that N95 Mask will be provided to all the frontline workers in Bharuch city which include police department, Health department, Nagarpalika workers, hospitals staff & other Government offices etc.

We have distributed 4000 N95 Mask in 1st Covid-19 wave during the lock down and 3000 N95 Mask were distributed in second wave.

The world in grappling with the Coronavirus outbreak. The impact of the pandemic is severe universally however, the worst affected are the poor older persons. Older people are at maximum risk of COVID-19 since they have more chronic ailments than younger people and their ageing immune system makes it harder to fight diseases, infections and viruses. Recoveries are usually slower and more complicated.

In India 80% of the people who died due to COVID-19 were above 65 years of age. More than 17% of people affected by the deadly virus are senior citizens above the age of 60 years.

During the second wave of Covid - 19, Gram Vikas Trust, Bharuch has identified and distributed Nutrition Ration Kits to 88 malnourished children in 15 villages in association with concern Aganwadi worker.

The nutrition kits contain quantity upto 3 month duration and GVT will regular monitor the progress of each child still they come in green zone.

Gram Vikas Trust, Bharuch has already identified the beneficiaries who have either lost any loved once who was also the earning member of the family in this trying times or has lost the capacity to earn by sudden loss of job.

During the Covid-19 second wave, we have distributed more than 4000 ration kits in slum area of Bharuch and rural villages.

The GVT team will also deliver to the beneficiaries the key information such as what the food kit contains, and how the hygiene kit will beneficial to the HH.

Gram Vikas Trust, Bharuch is developing innovative solution to bring more support in this time of crisis in India. These Heroes of Humanity will allow us to impact the lives of thousands more people with food, supplies, COVID testing, access to medical interventions, and so much more in the most rural communities - which are radically underserved and overlooked. The program also economically empowers families in this turbulent time.

This aligns perfectly with our philosophy of bringing both urgent solutions in a time of crisis, while building long term sustainable programming to support communities. We believe that when innovations are designed to address both the short and long term needs of the community - it lends itself to more sustainable and reliable programming for the people we serve. It is 6 month program; can be extending in future if it gets succeed.