GHCL’s Social Work During Pandemic

 GHCL has always been upfront about helping underprivileged people through its GHCL Foundation Trust. It has upgraded its CSR activities to cover a larger section of the society to provide support to the downtrodden, needy and marginalized citizens and also to create a social infrastructure for their sustenance.

The pandemic of COVID-19 has brought the world to a standstill. Businesses got affected but the worse happened to people who were low wage workers, and had no savings or additional income. Keeping the chaos in mind, GHCL stepped forward to lend a helping hand and take care of underprivileged people till the situation gets back to normal.

 

Challenges face by low wage workers

Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, many villagers were not able to move out as workers were forced to stay back home. For some time, the Trust ensured a supply of food kits to fulfil their basic requirement, but this was not a permanent solution.

After analysing various facts, GHCL Foundation Trust decided to help these people to be productive. Many of these migrants owned small pieces of land that was unused. The Foundation Trust conducted surveys of these lands and called everyone to discuss the opportunities in the presence of the village Sarpanch, Mantri and other leaders.

The migrants were not willing to start cultivation in their land, as they were not having the money to buy the required seeds and fertilisers for the same. The Foundation Trust supported them and distributed organic manure, Bajra seeds, and vegetable seeds to around 125 families across 8 villages. In addition, 1350 saplings of coconut, mango, lemon, pomegranate, and chiku were given. This initiative helped the migrant families utilise their land to earn livelihood.

 

Challenges faced by children during lockdown

Children were also guided to stay back at home and study through online classes. But the kids from the village neither had good internet connectivity nor they were able to gain any interactive knowledge because of the lockdown.

The members of the Foundation Trust of GHCL Limited – One of the largest industrial salt manufacturers in india, along with Swadeep- NGO Partner, project Vidyajyot, came out with a great solution. The team listed out the contacts of every student and Anganwadi workers and reached out to the parents through the phone. The team designed various assignments for students based on their grades and they were asked to submit the assignment by either clicking a picture of the same or creating a small video and sharing it via phone. The team reached more than 2000 children from 61 Balwadi and 12 schools from 20 villages. Both the students as well as their parents appreciated this initiative.

 

Initiative by Corona Warriors

Bhavana, a passed out student of GHCL Vocational Training Institute, Jafrabad. A CSR initiative of GHCL. Today when our country is fighting with the outbreak of COVID 19, the institute received a call from Bhavana. She is now one of the corona warriors who are fighting for the lives of thousands of people. Although,  today she is facing tremendous pressure from her family to leave her job as they are worried about her wellbeing, but she is determined to serve the people who are fighting with this deadly virus.