COVID Relief for 273 Women & their Families, India

May 16

A second Covid-19 wave is devastating families and whole communities across India.

WOMEN’S EDUCATION PROJECT (WEP), FOUNDED by New York based, ZOE TIMMS, assists South India’s poorest, yet ambitious, young women to become economical independent.

Women's Education Project has identified 273 students and alumnae and their families from partnerships in Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu whose needs have become critical.

Support will be dry rations and sanitary goods parcels, seeds, and chickens and training to sustainably integrate this relief into community livelihoods.

Challenge

The 273 families (estimate to be 1,365 people in all) that WEP has identified are in great need.

All have suffered illness, death and employment loss. Some members are migrant workers returning to their homes.

The WEP students and alumnae, young women who were once eager to purse careers, now have little opportunities.

These families will continue to face hunger, health problems, limited access to resources and unemployment even as the pandemic lessens.

Solution

WEP has identified a two step strategy:

First, WEP will distribute sanitation, dry ration parcels, kitchen garden seeds, chickens and safety information to these families of five at a cost of 2000Rs. ($27.00 per month).

Second, young women will attend WEP's Ripple Effect Certificate Program, a training on sustainable activities (kitchen gardens and chicken rearing) and dissemination of critical public safety information and livelihood activity knowledge.