Event No: 594
Event: Me2We Coronavirus Relief Part 38 - Support for Covid-19 tested positive families @ Ramachandra Rao Banjar
Location: Ramachandra Rao Banjar, Penubally Mandal, Khammam District, Telangana
Donation: Provided groceries
Amount: Rs. 32640
Donors: Dr.PaulRaj Engineering College 2000-04 batch friends
Raju Mittapalli
Sambaiah Sammeta
Rajesh Yalamarthy
Rehana Sultana MD
Madhurima Gudivada
Suman Maddula
Sagar Motupalli
Kiran Sreeram
Saleem Mohammad
Sai Kiran Kodumuri
Thank you all for contributing to this noble cause.
Background information:
We got this requirement from our member Rajesh Yalamarthy and the requirement is to support Covid-19 tested positive families with groceries.
When Me2We received the requirement, total 66 people of 34 families were tested positive (as on 7th of Sep 2020) .
Mostly all of them are daily wage laborers, small scale farmers having their own 1 or 2 acres of land or by cultivating by taking lease (Kaulu Raitulu), cattle rearers and few of them are small private job workers including Vidya volunteers (contract based private teachers), 1 bus conductor, 1 RMP doctor, 1 self-employed small scale cotton products manufacturer (pillows and mattresses for supply to hostels). Most of these families fall under below poverty line.
Lock down Impact: Most of their earnings got effected due to this lock down. Even private job employees like Vidya volunteers also looked out for alternate means to support their families by selling eggs or by going for daily wage jobs.
In addition to that they were tested with covid-19 positive and almost 66 people got tested positive from 34 families. These 34 families were asked to home quarantine themselves. They were provided with the medicines kit with a 10 day course. They were facing difficulties due to this home quarantine:
1. None of the family members were allowed to come out of the house (to prevent its spread). It has become hard for them to run their family to meet daily needs.
2. Even no one in the village were ready to accept any money from the affected families due to being tested Covid-19 positive. Moreover their neighbors or their friends themselves being poor are turning helpless in sharing their reserves of cash to help them steer through this situation.
Understanding their situation few local people started helping these affected families in what ever way they can by providing them with sanitizers, eggs, vegetables, and fruits some times. All of them are receiving rice on their ration card.
In continuation to this we got the request to support for their groceries. Our team had calls with most of the reachable families (few families don't have mobile phones). After understanding their situation, we have distributed groceries to their families.
Volunteers:
Immadi Venkateswara Rao
Kandhukuri Shiva
Parasa Durgarao
Chennu Anil Kumar
Marakala Chanti
Marakala Nageswararao
Harish Kumar V (Virtual)
Sagar Motupalli (Virtual)
Rajesh Yalamarthy (Virtual)
Thank you Venkat, Shiva, Durgarao, Chanti and Nageswararao for volunteering this event by visiting Covid-19 tested positive people houses with all covid-19 precautionary measures.
Thank you Harish Kumar V & Sagar for having one on one calls with all the families who have mobile phones, gathering complete information and understanding their needs.
Thank you Rajesh for bringing this requirement to our notice and providing preliminary information.
Note: Me2We has gathered complete information about Covid-19 tested positive families for this requirement during verification process. However, considering their privacy and confidentiality of Covid-19 information, we will not be disclosing their names and contact details of Covid-19 tested positive families.
Regards,
Me2We
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