Campaign 3 - Food For Needy
Varad Since 2010
Food For Needy
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated health and subsistence crisis – quickly turning into a hunger and malnutrition catastrophe.
The pandemic has pushed vulnerable households living at the margins back into poverty by escalating inequalities and widening the haves and have-nots gap and has shoved millions of people into the vicious cycles of economic stagnation, loss of livelihood and worsened food insecurity.
Lockdowns and Social distancing resulted in unemployment and eventually migration of millions further deteriorated India’s hunger crisis. The First Phase of the National Family Health Survey (2019-2020) has revealed alarming findings, with as many as 16 states showing an increase in underweight and severely wasted children of under the age of 5.
The pandemic is becoming a nutrition crisis, due to overburdened healthcare systems, disrupted food patterns and income loss, along with the disruption of programmes like the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and the mid-day meal.
Varad Since 2010
What Varad is Doing
Food: The Moral Right of All
The pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the poorest and most vulnerable population further intensifying hunger and poverty. The number of severely food-insecure people has doubled within two years.
- What we saw- The ongoing COVID Pandemic has left millions unemployed. The downfall in economy is also directly related to the increased malnutrition.
- What we did- VARAD team decided to come forward and organised several Free Food langars. We also noticed the same plight of animals and birds and made efforts to feed them also.
- Without immediate humanitarian assistance, the poor and downtrodden are at risk of falling into famine or famine-like conditions.
- VARAD volunteers tirelessly towards creating awareness of sharing the extra food with poor with a simple mission – ‘With So Much Wasted Food, No one Deserves to Sleep Hungry’.
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