Children who have lost both their parents to Covid-19 are at a heightened risk of neglect and exploitation. (Representative photo)
In the middle of blaring headlines of Covid-19 numbers, falling positivity rates, vaccine penetration and the imminent third wave of the pandemic, stories of Radhi, Fatima and Nabina fall between the cracks.
Take Radhi for instance. The six-year-old was found sitting next to her mother s lifeless body at a traffic signal on a busy road in Haryana s Faridabad town. Her father had succumbed to Covid-19, a couple of days back and now the disease had taken away her mother too.
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Bhubaneswar: Converting the dreadful COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity, a handful of rural women from underprivileged communities in Bhubaneswar are raising vegetable gardens at home, with the support of SOS Children’s Villages of India (SOSCVI), a child care NGO, as a viable source of income during the lockdown that saw men, the primary breadwinners of their families, lose jobs.
The women, who are primary caregivers of children, are the direct beneficiaries of Family Strengthening, the community outreach programme of SOSCVI. The programme aims at increasing the household income of vulnerable families, and thus, upholds and enhances the quality of parental care for their children. The programme covers over 250 families with more than 600 children in the villages of Mahimangar, Kujimahal, Dalua, Nadhara, Giringaput and Haridamada of Khordha district. The families belong totribal, scheduled castes and other backward classes with many of them working as migrant labourers.
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SOS Children’s Villages India lends a helping hand with children affected due to pandemic
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SOS Children’s Villages India, an NGO, has announced that that it is ready to provide short or long-term care to vulnerable children across the country whose safety, security, and well-being have been severely affected because of losing parental care due to the pandemic, and for those who have no caregivers left to provide for them.
Sumanta Kar, secretary general, SOS Children’s Villages said that in these trying times, SOS Children’s Villages India expresses solidarity with the people to fight COVID-19, which has devastated the socio-economic fabric of the country.