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Humanity Welfare Council of India

Works on all the below mentioned columns and you can find, every independent project on a common website platform-https://www.hwc.international/index.html

Food

Project UPHAAR -https://www.hwc.international/project-uphaar.html

For volunteering as a food server - https://www.akshayapatra.org/volunteering-opportunities

Akshaya Patra food donation - https://www.akshayapatra.org/

Adolescent health and nutrition -https://gautamgambhirfoundation.org/adolescent-health-and-nutrition/

Annakshetra - http://www.annakshetra.org/

https://nofoodwaste.org/

Health

Specialized Health Resources for Communities

University of Urban Indian Health https://www.uihi.org/resources/covid-19-fact-sheets-for-providers-employers-and-the-general-public/

App Arogya Sethu - to stay informed about Covid19

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nic.goi.aarogyasetu&hl=en_GB

Ministry of health and family welfare - for updates on covid19

https://www.mohfw.gov.in/

https://www.mygov.in/covid-19

Mental Health

For children :https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/mentalhealthchildrean.pdf

For elderly https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/mentalhealthelderly.pdf

For Migrants https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/RevisedPsychosocialissuesofmigrantsCOVID19.pdf

Helpline for behavioural and psychosocial needs: 08046110007

Self-Care

Here are the list of few blogs addressing the necessity for self care

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/deviced/202003/self-care-and-covid-19-getting-ready-the-marathon

https://www.eatingrecoverycenter.com/blog/march-2020/how-to-practice-self-care-during-the-coronavirus

Childcare

https://www.hwc.international/women-child-rights.html

Organizations helping with childcare and children rights in India

https://www.oxfamindia.org/blog/childcare-india-today

Child rights and you

https://www.cry.org/

Save the children India

https://www.savethechildren.in/

A NGO for women and Child Care -https://www.giveindia.org/nonprofit/asha-kiran

Education

https://www.mooc-list.com/countries/india

Best online education sources for children - https://www.studyvillage.com/resources/2753-Best-Education-Websites-in-India-for-Children.aspx

Top ten online learning platforms India

https://www.thetoptens.com/online-learning-platforms-india/

Finances

Income Relief

State Bank of India - EMIs can be stopped for the month of lockdown

https://bank.sbi/documents/127/0/310320-Annexure-III.pdf/d1bb5b6b-1e2d-63d6-b9cb-39402bcd7b58?t=1585673788778

Housing

For homeless people -https://homelesspeople.in/

Who's hiring?

Multiple companies have different positions vacant on these sites

https://india.recruit.net/trending-companies

https://www.monsterindia.com/

For contract based government jobs -http://niti.gov.in/career/vacancy-circular

Work with humanity welfare council -https://www.hwc.international/careers.html

Disability Benefits/Paid Sick Leave

Unemployment Benefits

http://esic.in/web/esic/benefits

http://esic.in/web/esic/lodge-a-grievance

Tax Assistance

http://www.in.kpmg.com/taxflashnews/KPMG-Flash-News-Economic-measures-in-view-of-Covid-19.pdf

Small Business Assistance

Investing in business

https://www.investindia.gov.in/sectors

To start a startup

https://www.startupindia.gov.in/

For startups facing issues from ongoing corona pandemic,

https://www.investindia.gov.in/bip

Elderly (65+)

suspects of covid19 can reach out Robinhood army in India on this link

https://robinhoodarmy.com/seniorpatrol/

Elderly can reach out helpage India for help

https://www.helpageindia.org/

Manavlok is another such NGO-http://www.manavlok.org/

For food, elders can reach out robinhood army on the link

https://robinhoodarmy.com/

Safety for Survivors of Violence

Call 100

As a subject of domestic abuse, how to survive quarantine- article

https://www.daily-chronicle.com/2020/03/23/how-to-survive-quarantine-with-a-domestic-abuser-advice-from-safe-passage/ac5g40a/

An article from UN women Organization

https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/news-and-events/stories/2020/03/statement-ed-phumzile-covid-19-women-front-and-centre

https://pmnrf.gov.in/en/online-donation - Prime minister’s relief fund

Sharing links to a few fundraising campaigns to try and address this:

  1. Here's Give India's campaign to support daily wagers' families hit by COVID-19 https://indiafightscorona.giveindia.org/support-families/

  2. Bengaluru organization, Hasiru Dala which does wonderful work in helping waste pickers is running a campaign to help waste pickers in Bengaluru whose livelihoods are similarly affected. http://hasirudala.in/news/wastepickers-and-covid19/

  3. Zomato is running a campaign again to help daily wagers. Link below: (HT Anisha Sharma who's also crowdsourcing a list on her FB wall). https://www.feedingindia.org/donate

  4. A campaign is also being run on Our Democracy to support Delhi Youth Welfare Association and people in the Old Delhi area https://www.ourdemocracy.in/Campaign/covid19Delhi

  5. Ketto has a page dedicated to a bunch of fundraisers for COVID-19 related needs (including some in the list above and many more) https://covid19.ketto.org/

  6. Kanaga, a collective in Chennai, is collecting money to help trans persons in the city with basic provisions during the period of the lockdown. The campaign is on milaap: https://milaap.org/fundraisers/support-kanaga

Volunteer Opportunities/How to Help

  1. https://self4society.mygov.in/ - To serve as a volunteer through the government of India.

  2. https://niti.gov.in/healthcovid/volunteer_covid.php only for doctors to attend telemedicine clinic

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