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Children’s Homes and COVID-19: Part 1 – Operational Challenges
Running a child care institution is a major responsibility, and this responsibility has increased significantly in the current crisis. In part one of this series, we discuss the impact of the lockdown on children and staff at the child care institutions, especially Children’s Homes.
Covid Stories: Finding Psychiatric Medicines amidst the Lockdown
While relief workers were providing food supplies, there was a family in distress where their need was medication. This story highlights the difficulties of procuring essential medication in the COVID19 imposed lockdown.
Covid Stories: Reaching Home – The Struggles of a Migrant Family
The pandemic has affected the dignity and self-respect of many by making them depend on relief material for survival. This case brought to light the fate of workers who have migrated to Mumbai but were rendered absolutely helpless amid the lockdown.
One day In Prerana: Through the lens of a Counselor
Our counselor shares what a day in the life of a counselor working with minor victims of sexual abuse and exploitation, looks like. Priya Ahluwalia shares her journey as a mental health professional to a vulnerable and marginalized population struggling with unique circumstances and challenges.
Covid Stories: Class bias, Police aggression and Homelessness as witnessed by a Child
The story showed the plight of the people living on the street, struggling with little or no means of survival. The insensitivity of the state towards the families added to their vulnerabilities and anxieties, amid the pandemic. While on one hand, the state is seeking that people must stay at home, they are creating a situation of homelessness for families on the margins.
Covid Stories: Work from Home during Covid-19 – A conversation with Prachi Naik
A number of our employees are field-based, but due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the lockdown, we have had to change the way we work overnight. Our teams are now figuring out and navigating the new normal, trying to manage and maintain a work-life balance.
Here we share a recent conversation we had with Prachi Naik, the Project Manager of our Institutional Placement Program who has been navigating the new normal in these unprecedented times.
Covid Stories: From Ashram School to being stranded in a Field – Reema’s Story
The sudden announcement of lockdown had led to a crisis in the lives of many, and Reema’s case highlights how it affected children who were asked to return from Ashram Schools and how poor awareness on COVID19 made people suffer, even in areas with seemingly few cases of COVID-19.
Covid Stories: Fieldwork in the time of Covid-19 – Vaishali Karande
Post the Nation-wide lock down, six of our team members have been regularly providing relief to the women in the area through ration and hygiene kit distributions. We’d like to share one of Vaishali Karande’s interactions with a mother of one of our children as she shared her current situation and the reason, she has chosen to continue living in the red light area.
Covid Stories: Does relief material actually reach those in need?
Despite the crisis, in some places, people in positions of power are still depriving people of essential services. This case highlights the need to ensure that relief material reaches those that are actually in need.