Sashakt Foundation Covid relief work during the 2nd wave of COVID19

New Delhi, 25 May:While people across the country have been staying at home to protect their health and that of their loved ones, NGOs have stepped up to support the poorest of poor who are struggling for mere survival. Sashakt Foundation’s team of warriors have been on the streets of Delhi NCR fighting against the odds and risking their own lives to provide food, rations and medical supplies to daily wage workers, migrants, specially-abled people, transgenders and other marginalized communities.

Sashakt is an NGO based out of Noida founded by an ex-civil servant and UN employee Pratik Kumar, in 2016with the aim to make a world where people and planet coexist in perfect harmony for lasting well-being and prosperity. Covid19 has rocked the very foundation of the society spreading death and deprivation all around. The foundation came forward to provide dry ration, cooked meals, hygiene kits and Covid Home Care kits to the most affected families in slums and temporary shanties in East Delhi and Noida areas to more than 2000 families so far.

Sashakt has been continuously providing nutritional support in the communities by distributing dry ration kits that are good enough for a family of five persons to last a week weighing about 15 kgs each.Amongst 2000 families about 30 tonnes of dry rations have been distributed and more is in the pipeline. Sashakt is also distributing a hygiene kit along with the dry ration so that people can maintain proper hygiene habit which is the need of the hour.In addition, Sashakt has been distributing cooked meals to more than a thousand people on a daily basis.

Careful community engagement helps identify poor patients who are unable to go to a hospital of need home care, Such patients are provided Covid Home Care kits comprising a thermometer, pulse oximeter, basic Medicines, Hand Sanitiser, N95 masks, Gloves, Face Shield, PPE Kit, and Waste bags. These kits help the patients to monitor their health so that they can get to know when to approach the hospital rather than rushing the hospital even when it is not required which makes the situation even worse.