Dear Friends of Sahaara!

It will bring great joy to you all to know that as of date Sahaara has provided emergency food relief to 572 families (PM Thursday, April 9, 2020) – this amounts to providing bread on the table to more than 2300 lives of the victims of Covid19 lockdown.

Apart from this relief effort – we also conducted COVID19 individual awareness sessions for 466 beneficiaries and provided trauma counselling to 94 needy individuals.

Sahara’s Strategy for SEFR Phase 2 is 4 fold:

1.Providing Emergency Family Relief (Food rations)
2. Conducting Awareness on Covid19 to beneficiaries
3.Providing Trauma and Stress Counselling.
4. Providing Emergency Family Relief (To cover rent to limited needy beneficiaries)

The funds required for emergency relief to victims of Covid19 are HUGE even more so with the likelihood of the extension of the lockdown to 30th April, 2020.
We would need your generous financial support to kick start the Phase 2 of our relief operations from Monday, 13th April, 2020 wherein we are targeting to provide relief to another 1000 families.

We want to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support to the vision of Sahaara!

Dear Friends of Sahaara,

Our nation is under a LOCKDOWN since March 25th, 2020 to stem the spread of the CORONAVIRUS. However these constraints did not prevent us at Sahaara from rendering support to our vulnerable beneficiaries – who live in the red light districts, government homes and slums in Mumbai and its neighboring districts.

Our beneficiaries and their families were the FIRST CASUALTIES of the lockdown since a majority of them were daily wageworkers – this further increased their vulnerability. Sahaara developed a reliable process to provide emergency food relief in kind through effective use of the mobile/video technology and our time proven relationships with community leaders on the ground.

Sahaara launched its “EMERGENCY FAMILY RELIEF PROGRAM” (SEFR) on March 26th, 2020 and our Phase 1 target was to support 500 needy and desperate families in our area of influence. This SEFR Phase 1 project was successfully completed on April 7th, 2020.

Sahaara is now launching the Phase 2 of the Emergency Family Relief Program (SEFR 2) from 13th April 2020 and targets to provide relief to 750 needy families. The cost per beneficiary relief kit is INR 1600 (USD 22).

The Sahaara Relief Kit is designed to take care of an average family size of 4 with FOOD RATIONS for a period of 3 weeks. Each Relief Kit comprises of daily essentials like Rice, Wheat, Oil, Pulses, Sugar, Salt, Onions, Potatoes, Soaps (Wash & Bath) and a Disinfectant.

Sahaara also conducts COVID19 AWARENESS SESSIONS and provides TRAUMA COUNSELLING services for its beneficiaries. Your generous contributions will meet the survival needs of the vulnerable and marginalized families in their hour of need.