How People Are Coming Forward To Help Those In Need, Amidst The 21-Day Nationwide Lockdown

Volunteers of the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Sanstha (BAPS) and municipal workers, load packets of vegetable in a truck for distribution among poor residents during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a precautionary measure against the COVID-19, in Ahmedabad.

Millions of?homeless?and daily wage earners in India are more vulnerable to starvation than the virus.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had announced that free cooked food will be provided twice a day to the homeless in night shelters and said that Delhi government will provide free ration to over 72 lakh people and the quantity will be increased from 5 Kg to 7Kg for every ration card-holder.??

Supplying essential commodities at a labour camp near Chalai by?Don Bosco?Veedu Society?at Thiruvananthapuram.

An activist from the city and his small team of volunteers have beenworking tirelessly for the past one week to provide shelter and food to abandoned persons on roadsides.

At least 90% of India's workforce is employed in the informal sector, according to the International Labour Organisation -?working in roles such as security guards, cleaners, rickshaw pullers, streets vendors, garbage collectors and domestic help.

A volunteer of Amrutha Hastham feeding a disabled homeless person during the nationwide lockdown in Vijayawada.

Employees of Sri Durga Malleswara Swamy Varla Devasthanam preparing food packets for the homeless, during the nationwide lockdown in Vijayawada.