Since March 24, 2020, the lockdown in India has brought the entire country to a standstill and has severely affected the poor, especially the daily-wage-worker families who live on $6 a day.

According to some independent reports, nearly 197 people have died of hunger in the first couple of months of the lockdown. There may be thousands of poverty deaths that were unreported. Now India has categorically opened the country with restrictions in place to keep the crowded country safe. On the contrary, the Covid cases are increasing and the death rate is going up. That means more daily-wage workers and beggars, who live one-day at a time, are expected to suffer more, if not die of starvation or infection.

Thankfully, the government and many non-profit organizations have been doing their best to help the suffering people as much as possible. However, the help is not fully reaching the poorest of the poor as the need is great. As a non-profit organization (501 (c)3 and 80(G), we are doing whatever we can to ease the suffering of the people.

In the past six months, we carefully identified and helped more than 1000 families in dozens of villages in Andhra, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Chattishgarh and Telangana which are under severe poverty. We distributed to them food supplies and other necessities that would last for at least two weeks. We paid rent for dozens of pastors. Thanks to the donors who have generously given to this cause. Below are some of heartwarming responses.