India has been in lockdown since 20 March, 2019 to control Covid-19 pandemic, causing mass layoffs and heavy job losses. Millions of desperate migrant workers, particularly daily-wage earners, facing starvation after losing jobs are fleeing cities on foot to return to their villages. Help promised by state governments in terms of cash transfers and free ration kit distribution has not reached many sections, due to the sheer numbers involved and lack of ration cards with migrant guest workers.

Vidya Jyoti Association in one of the leading NGOs providing relief during covid-19 in Delhi. Vidya Jyoti Association is providing cooked meals and grocery kits to the poor and jobless daily wage workers across West District of Delhi.

We directly donate food, needy essentials to homeless people, and poor families impacted by the COVID-19 coronavirus. Daily wage workers, migrant workers rendered jobless by the current COVID-19 pandemic and they need our timely support to prevent hunger.

Daily wage workers including auto drivers, domestic maids, plumbers, electricians, workers in petty shops, delivery boys, house helpers, and their financial well-being will be directly impacted by their inability to earn their daily wage due to this epidemic coronavirus. Hunger and desperation prevail, and we can do something by donating cooked food and dry ration kit to these deprived.

COVID-19 Relief – Save The Daily Wagers, Elders and Street Children in Delhi:
Vidya Jyoti Association has been providing relief to sections of the community affected by the pandemic. We have in place a team of well-trained volunteers to identify people who need relief.

Following are some of the relief works undertaken by us since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic:

1. Distribution of ration kit to daily wage workers in Delhi District. So far 1500 grocery kits, each worth around of Rs. 1200, have been distributed.
2. Distribution of cooked meals. Around 1500 meals have been distributed so far.
3. Distribution of cloth for making masks and sanitizers. Around 850 sets have been distributed so far.

We have been providing relief without any support from the government, and are supported solely by donors.

According to budget plan, utilization of donation for a cause as follows

• The sponsor donations, we utilized for the food groceries and nutritious food sponsorship for the slum dwellers, construction laborers, rickshaw pullers.
• The sponsor donations, we utilize for sanitizers, disinfectant lime fresh liquids, hypo liquids, medical supplies, and masks.
• 100% of your donation helps in procuring and distributing meal kits to families of daily wage earners in our target locations
• 80G Tax exemption certificate will be issued for all donations; every donation is tax-deductible under 80G of Income Tax Act, 1961.