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Giants Warriors Combat Against Side Effects of Lockdown: Strikes Hard On Hunger!

By Rashida Maimoon

Giants Warriors Combat Against Side Effects of Lockdown: Strikes Hard On Hunger!

Giants Welfare Foundation is the first India-based International service organization founded on 31st August 1972 by Padmashree Nana Chudasama. GIANTS stands for Generosity, Integrity, Action, Nobility, Truthfulness, and Service are manifestations of good solid citizenship. The GIANTS movement provides its members with an ideology base and organization platform to enable citizens to play their community welfare role. Every good citizen wishes to do some useful social services. Giants translate that wish into a will. While COVID-19 pandemic poses an extraordinary challenge to the world, Giants Welfare Foundation branch 1A has gallantly contributed to making it less painful. Like most countries worldwide, India, too, had no option but to ostracise, placing a massive strain on the already overburdened community of daily wage laborers and migrants in Mumbai.

Ever since the lockdown started on 25th March, people have been most apprehensive about getting enough food supply. While the stores had long queues of people stocking up emergency food, there remained the daily wagers and migrants who were not privileged enough to afford to do so. Realizing this status quo, Giants Welfare Foundation Branch 1A stepped up to provide ready to eat food packets every day to various locations in the city. More than a million food packets have distributed already and still counting. Unitedly under the slogans of `Hunger Door Karona’ and NESH (Nobody Ever Sleeps Hungry) the group took up the herculean task and identified the most famished locations like Byculla, Nagpada, Clare Road, Antop Hill, Reay Road, Darukhana, Nagdevi Street, Chembur, Wadala, and Madanpura. These locations are now incessantly supplied with food packets for lunch, and dinner confirms to the reporter of Prittle Prattle News.

The members themselves pack the food in disposable containers to ensure safety, and the distribution is adhering to the government’s advice of social distancing, keeping hygiene as a priority at all locations. Apart from the `one million food packets’ mark, the various charters of the Branch 1A of Giants Welfare Foundation, under the leadership of Mrs. Mehjabeen KM, have joined the cause by providing ration and foodgrains to the needy and underprivileged. All essential groceries has delivered to more than 10000 families in Wadala, Malad, Nalasopara, Vile Parle, Andheri, and Juhu areas. One group whose members physically challenged themselves has given philanthropy a new definition by providing face masks to medical staff in various hospitals.

Another group that includes all senior citizens despite not leaving their homes contributed by arranging various online courses for skill enhancement and providing online psychological and legal counseling to cope with these modern times. All the groups in the Branch 1A are collectively providing supplies to support the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, including 1100 personal protective equipment (PPE), 9000 masks, 150 face shields, 2050 gloves, 1800 overalls, to safeguard medical support to frontline health workers providing care and treatment to those affected by the virus.

To ensure higher hygiene standards, they have also donated 5000 sanitizers and 1600 hand-washes to local government hospitals. Medical help has also given to those affected. Their team members help the Mumbai Police day and night compile more than 8000 migrant laborers who need to go to their back to their homes in their native villages. Snacks and drinking water bottles are also provided to the Police Officials to keep up their morale. With their fight against hunger, regular awareness drives, various online courses to productively utilize lockdown time, online counseling, feeding stray animals, and blood donation drives, the Giants Welfare Foundation Branch 1A has tried all the possible efforts to make this indisposed lockdown easier for the city of Mumbai. To stay updated with their activities or contribute, they can reach on Facebook as Giants Welfare Foundation Branch1A (NGO). “Every person can make a difference, and everyone should try. I am humbled and blessed to be heading such an amazing, diverse group of humanitarians who are giving themselves, by the head, heart, and hands. As Theodore Roosevelt rightly says, Do what you can, with what you have, where you are”. – says President Mehjabeen Mandasourwala in a detailed discussion with Prittle Prattle News.

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