Exhibiting variety of freshly grown vegetables on the ground for selling, smallholder farmer Bimla Patel is an example of self-reliance in her community where she lives – Bagrohi Village, Sagar District of Madhya Pradesh – battling the adversities of climate. When the whole country is suffering the impact of Coronavirus and scarcity of essential items and resources, Bimla in her less than half-acre of land is cultivating Brinjal, Cucumber, Tomato,

Centre for Migration and Inclusive Development in association with National Health Mission Ernakulam has successfully run the  “BANDHU Clinic” country’s first Mobile Medical Unit, which is reaching out to residential areas of migrant workers in Kerala providing critical COVID screening services in addition to free treatment for their ailments in partnership with various agencies. Bandhu Clinic is a hi-tech facility catering to migrants’

“Every day I would go out on a quest to look for people who distribute food and bring back whatever I get for my children”, says Triveni, a widow and mother of three girls.     Triveni’s husband committed suicide during the COVID-19 lockdown, he was the only breadwinner of the family. After his demise, the family went into a shock as they did not know what to do next.   Triveni desperately started looking for a job and after a profound

Students suffered a huge loss in education during the lockdown. The academic sessions were put on hold, examinations were postponed or cancelled, leaving lakhs of students without any way out. All educational institutions were closed, and students were confined to their houses.  E-learning was boosted to fill the gap but students from low-income group families were far from availing such alternatives. Online classes are luxury for few but most it

Caritas India has announced its membership of the transformational humanitarian organisation Start Network, demonstrating its commitment to collaborate with others to catalyse a new humanitarian system that can save more lives. Start Network’s mission is to drive and catalyse change in the global aid system, tackling what it sees as the biggest systemic problems that the sector faces. Problems including slow and reactive funding, centralised decision-making,

The Southern district of Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu is dependent on the northeast and south-west monsoons. Agriculture plays a vital role in the district’s economy. The total cropped area of 207868 hectares, works out 30.75% to the total area of 675850 hectares. The district is blessed with the Western Ghats, from which all the perennial rivers flow and drain towards the east. The surface water of the district is drained into major river basins

Covid-19 has led to a sudden and extreme economic disruption across the planet. According to the estimation from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy on 12th May over 122 million people in India lost their jobs in April 2020. Around 75% of them were small traders and wage-labourers. Unemployment on this scale, even if only temporary, will shrink incomes for the workers and their families. This in turn, will lead to increases in household debt, particularly

The COVID-19 pandemic has infected approximately 7 million people and the death toll has surpassed 400, 000 across the world. India too has borne the brunt with cases increasing each day. The first case of COVID-19 in India was reported on January 30, 2020, and as of June 19, 2020, India continued to record new highs in reporting coronavirus cases in a single day since 13,856 new infections were reported in the last 24 hours. The impact of the pandemic