The pandemic has its negative and positive sides, though it had spread like wildfire and affected millions of people around the globe, at the same time created self-realization that they can go back to nature for survival where they can’t just depend on the food sold in the market. Social Service Centre (SSC), Shillong in its journey has been working and taking initiative in bringing back the wild edibles that many of the community people have

Non-Timber Forest Produce (NTFP) is the major source of income in tribal-dominated areas. NTFPs contribute about 20% to 40% to the annual income of tribal people who are socially and economically deprived and having very less landholding. The majority of these NTFPs are collected and sold by women (Planning Commission, 2011). The District of Mandla in Madhya Pardesh is naturally rich in forests and plays a central role in socio-economic and socio-political

When a large scale natural disaster like Cyclone Gaja (2018) causes physical destruction and the recovery process becomes emotionally and financially expensive, humanitarian organisations like Caritas India reaches out to the affected who need a transition from the status of victims to dignified citizens. In the operational area of Caritas India partners, a total of 23108 families have totally lost their livelihood due to the impact of Cyclone Gaja.

It is alarming that the vulnerability of the children is increased during COVID19 pandemic and associated lockdown. The access of smartphone with high-speed data by children has an open new opportunity for the traffickers to lure the children for trafficking and sexual abuse. Children become easy victims of online sexual exploitation as they spend more and more time online and the risk has increased ten folds during the pandemic. While parents are

For daily wage worker Favina, survival is based on only factor i.e. daily work. The day she stops working her ailing husband and two children will face the starvation. Since the COVID-19 pandemic in Nagpur, this source of livelihood suffered a shocking setback. Just from the day lockdown was announced as a measure to contain the spread of coronavirus, Favina, who lives in a slum area at Jaripattaka area of Nagpur faced serious survival issues. er

Caritas India and Welthungerhilfe decided to join hands to fight the hunger and nutrition insecurity of Adivasi communities in India which has aggravated in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic. A roadmap for promoting culturally appropriate, environmentally sound and decentralised food systems among tribal communities in India was finalised in a webinar that was organised on 17 July 2020. Over 170 partners of Caritas India and Welthungerhilfe had attended

As the country struggles with Coronavirus, the eastern part of the country faces the dual challenge of COVID and Cyclone Amphan devastation. The State of West Bengal and Odisha were severely affected by the torrential rain and fierce storm that snapped out electricity poles, damaged thousands of houses and destroyed a thousand acres of crops. While West Bengal was badly hit, the districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur and Kendrapada in Odisha barreled

Caritas India is providing immediate assistance for the people worst affected in the region of North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas in West Bengal. In this rural coastal region, many houses were razed to the ground, levees broke, and the fields have been flooded with seawater. The next harvest has been almost entirely destroyed. “It is a disaster that people have lost their homes and their livelihoods due to the cyclone. In times of Covid-19,