Sofia Educational & Welfare Society with the support of Tech Mahindra Foundation, Hamdard National Foundation, BSES, Tata Power and IGSSS provided support to these affected people. Our esteemed partners showed great enterprise and tried to ease the distress of marginalized individuals during lockdown by providing relief material to the needy families. We worked relentlessly towards providing dry ration kits, financial support, cooked meals, hygiene kits, livelihood through masks stitching to underprivileged people.

The volunteers reached out to the communities and took every necessary attempt to ensure that the deprived ones are not left out. They are also creating awareness on maintaining social distance and preventing the spread to coronavirus in the community by wearing protective gears such as mask, gloves. They are also being advised to use hand sanitizer or soap to keep their hands clean.

Upon hearing the relief work, the needy people themselves approached our centres to collect the relief material.  We distributed dry ration kits which contained rice, aata, rajma, chana dal, refined oil, tea packet, sugar, salt and soap to more than 48000 needy people with the support of Tech Mahindra Foundation, Hamdard National Foundation, Goonj and IGSSS.

We had also provided ration to needy people by door to door service for those who couldn’t reach to our office. Our volunteers took every necessary hygiene precautions and used gloves, face masks and hand sanitizers during the ration distribution.

As a special initiative on the occasion of EID, we provided 1300 special kits to needy families who were unable to celebrate festival. The kits contained Aata, Sewaiyan, Rice, Dry Fruits, Daal, Sugar.

It was going through under proper management of the distribution committee as the community size is large. The volunteers also collected data to show the date wise distribute of ration.

During our journey, we got support from police officials, District Administration officials, IAS Officers, Social Workers, Community Leaders and volunteers to reach out needy persons. Hence, we issued “Corona Warriors Certificates” to all of them. This initiative was taken to motivate, accelerate their spirit and commitment toward working for us 24×7 in pandemic situation.

Keeping in view of COVID 19 pandemic spread, we observed that there was need of masks for underprivileged people and sanitizer dispenser machine at shelter homes, though apart from ration and financial support to needy people, we also distributed approx. 1.5 Lakh masks to underprivileged people within community and also supplied approx. 3 Lakh masks to many companies and NGOs such as Action Aid, BSES, Tech Mahindra etc for distribution at mass level. We got stitched these masks by underprivileged people to connect them with livelihood.

Apart from this, Sofia in association with our esteemed partners provided financial assistance to more than 1130 beneficiaries for their day to day expenses.