Revari

200 people received a week’s ration

with the help of Dainik Bhaskar Newspaper.

Kurukshetra

59 families

of laborers received relief food materials for a week.

1,100 kg of raw material

distributed in the area.

Shimla

100 food packets

ready for distribution in areas to be allotted by the local administration.

Nahan

21kg weighing packets

distributed to 60 families. These food packets have been loaded with supplies that can last for 10 days to the families in this time of lockdown.

Una

Distributed ration, sanitizers

and spread awareness around COVID-19 among the underprivileged children.

4,000 families reached with food relief material in Jammu Kashmir in just 4 days to about 20,000 families.

The team is working around the clock to adopt 2,500 families in 7 locations to ensure they receive the essential food materials consistently. The team aims at distributing food materials weighing 50 tons. Distribution of food packets to 186 families, which is 1,200 people, carried out at Preet Nagar, Nanak Nagar, Channi Rama, and Channi Himat. 20 families with over 100 members at Gandhi Nagar received the relief food materials.

The team has also chalked out a plan to carry out a distribution of relief food material packets for b, which will have over 6,000 people. The camps have been set-up at Channi Rama, Channi Himmat, Gandhinagar, Nanak Nagar, Preet Nagar Clusters, Nanak Nagar Sec, Narwal, Railway Cluster and Regari.

Srinagar

Over 1,000 daily wage workers

and women provided with essentials in Pulwama and Srinagar.

Over 9,000 families provided the ration of 10 days. Food relief materials have been provided to the administration in Bathinda, Barnala, Faridkot, Muktsar, Nawanshahr, Rajpura, Chandigarh, Mandi Gobindgarh, Jagraon, Mohali, Nangal, Mogga, Ferozpur, Ludhiana, Fazilka, Muktasar, Zira, Kapurthala, in collaboration with the Punjab District Administration. The team also distributed 300 masks in Firozpur.

The team served food in the following areas, reaching out to:

• 4,000 families in Kapurthala
• 1,200 families in Faridkot
• 150 families in Barnala
• 100 families in Mandi Gobindgarh
• 500 families in Bhatinda

A number of other families were also given the food in Muktsar, Nawanshahr, Rajura, Chandigarh, Jagraon, Rajpura. Besides this, the volunteers of tricity, comprising Chandigarh, Panchkula, and Mohali, distributed 200 packed meals, 200 packs of biscuits to children, 200 masks, 100 sanitary napkins to underprivileged, and provided ration to 20 families of auto drivers as well as 50 food kits to daily wage laborers.

Srinagar

100 packets

distributed in Mai Jeena, Mukand Pori, Kother Khajoora areas.

Bhatinda

200 daily wage laborers

provided with a 10-day ration, along with food provided to daily workers at Shiv Basti.

Nawanshahr

250 families in 26 villages

outside Nawanshahr have been supplied with food relief material.

Chandigarh

150 families

reached out in this area, provided with food packets.

Barnala

1,200 ration food packets

and 1,000 masks distributed in the area in collaboration with the IOL Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals.

Faridkot

400 families

have been supplied with essential food relief materials.

In the first 6 days of the lockdown, The Art of Living volunteers team in the state has distributed approximately 38 tons (38,000)material, which was carried out effectively in 22 cities of Rajasthan. The relief material included food packets, cooked food.

Bikaner

20 quintal wheat

2.75 quintal lentils, 50 kg salt, 40 kg turmeric, 40 kg chili and 40 kg coriander distributed in the remote villages.

Alwar

INR 82,000 donated

by the Art of Living Alwar chapter along with ration to the local administration for distribution.

Abu Road

50 families in need

The Art of Living volunteers in Rajasthan have been sharing a hand in strengthening the initiative to reach out to those in need. The team collected and distributed the relief food material to 50 families in need.

Ajmer

35 people

Distributed relief material to 35 people including everyday essentials.

Banswara

INR 35,811 collected

In a moving effort to support the ‘PM Cares Fund’, which collects monetary donations for relief work under the aegis of the prime minister of the country, The Art of Living volunteers collected INR 35,811. The donation of this amount has been made successfully to the fund account.

Kota

500 food packets

distributed to families, which is around 2,000 people.

Dehradun

100 bags of ration

distributed to 100 families in Kalindi enclave, Rajeev Colony and K.C. Public School at Kanwali Road in association with the Vasant Vihar police station. Proper health preventive measures were undertaken by volunteers before taking up the initiative.

Kanpur

2,840 food packets

distributed.

10,000 people+

receive cooked food daily in Kanpur.

Following the lockdown, the state of Uttar Pradesh too was affected badly. Our volunteers gathered to be available for commoners in the best way possible. They decided to distribute food parcels. The team began the relief food material distribution task from March 25 and continued it relentlessly till March 28. In just 3 days, they distributed
3000 food parcels every day.
Food material for remote areas near Janpur has also been
distributed with the help of Kanpur Dehat police. As per data, over
10,000 people have got food with this effort. These are migrant
workers who are stuck in Kanpur.

Sant Kabir Nagar

Meanwhile, in Sant Kabir Nagar, The Art of Living volunteers have distributed food parcels as well. This was distributed with the help of the local administration on 28th March.

150 food packets

supplied to families in need, which includes a week’s stock of groceries and vegetables.

Mumbai

2,00,000 labor families

have been given a week's ration supply in the city

400 food packets

distributed at Bharat Nagar, Bandra-Kurla Complex, and Govandi with the help of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

500 food packets

distributed to workers in the film industry.

2,000 lunch and dinner food

is being distributed at Diva, Dongri, and Dharavi areas every day, sponsored by CRISIL.

1,200 ration kits

in Sion Koliwada area. This area is currently cordoned off after 10 COVID cases were found.

Navi Mumbai

The adjoining city of Navi Mumbai, too, has made a significant contribution to the relief work. In this crisis of COVID-19, the volunteers with the help of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) distributed 10 days ration daily wage workers in the area, reaching out to 600 families. IAHV supplied 450 food packets to TISS in Airoli and 150 packets will be distributed in Ambernath with the help of local administration.

Ahmednagar

As of date, The Art of Living Ahmednagar team has distributed 1,200 kg of ration to the underprivileged section of the society comprising workers and laborers. This has benefited 450 members of 102 families. Before our team reached out to them, they shared that they were eating toast with black tea following the lack of food and groceries. They further went on to share with the team that now they will be able to cook chapati and rice for the first time after the lockdown.

Chiplun, Kokan

An entire week's ration for 50 families, which is around 200 people, provided to Chiplun's Municipal Collection Centre. These will be further distributed to daily wage workers and those in need of assistance during the lockdown.

Dombivli

Distributed bags of ration to 600 families.

5,000 meals

prepared daily by The Art of Living International Center to feed nearby rural areas in Bangalore. 2,000 rotis per day and 700kg of rice being distributed daily to 5,000 villagers around the center’s campus. On some days, 4,000 rotis and over 1,400kg of cooked meal has also been distributed with dal and sabji.

~ 50 food parcels

have been distributed in the first phase of relief activities in Kalaburagi. The kits were distributed to 50 families in a slum.

~ 1000 sanitizers

have been distributed in Bangalore too.

5000 migrant families

from Bengaluru who were stopped from leaving the city were provided with 12 tons of ration for 10 days.

3,000 food packets

i.e. 30 tones of ration, distributed to needy families in close coordination with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), the police department and MLA Gandhi Arekapudi. Most of the families were migrant workers. The team is working in Nallagandla, Kondapur, and Nizampet.

10 tons of ration

As the first step, the team collected and distributed 10 tons of ration to feed 1,000 needy families on 28th March. Further supplies for 2,500 families are being procured. Every day, the team is feeding about 1,500 people every morning and evening in Hyderabad.

120 food packets

distributed by Kompalli team in Wadiaram village on April 2nd.

9000 packed fried rice packets

East Zone volunteers distributed around 9000 packed fried rice packets on April 1st.

Indore

The chapter started the initiative to prepare food for 500 daily wage laborers, it is now preparing food for 3,000 daily wage laborers. The food is being distributed by the officers of the Indore Municipal Corporation.

Chhindwara

2,000 kgs of vegetables

like cauliflower, tomato, and brinjal.

Rajwada

600 packets

distributed with the help of the local administration to senior citizens and the needy.

Jhansi​

30 food packets

distributed in the slums of Rajgadh area.

Dhanbad

400 families

in Ambona, Pradhaankhanta, Pandedeeh, Dhokra, Majhi Bhasti, Belgadiya, Rani Road Bhuda Colony, and Kusht Ashram Barmasiya.

Bhubhaneshwar

3 truckloads

filled with 20 tons rice, 15 tons dal, 20,000 soap bars, 75,000 packs of biscuits to be sent to Sri Sri University in Cuttack.

5,000 NPE masks

have been distributed in the state.

200 families

have been supplied with food packets. Teams are working round the clock in several parts of the state day and night, coordinating, managing and acquiring the required ration to be packed and further distributed to those in need. The Art of Living teams in all districts are doing their best to support those whom it's most needed.

100 families+

have been reached thus far in Maheshtalla Kolkata and Tikiapara Howrah. Each family has been provided with the ration that can last till the lockdown terminates. Helping and collaborating with the team in the distribution task is RSS force.

500 families

living at Dhanaikhali Hooghly received food packets.

100 people daily

The Art of Living chapter in Birbhum has taken the responsibility to feed around 100 people daily, who are at the stations and hospitals till the lockdown is active. The task will be carried out with the help of local administration comprising the police personnel, Station OC, SSP, and the chairman of Sainthia Municipality, reaching out to 1,200 families. The team has also visited the small villages where the tribals are living and have reached out to them with aid. The team has taken the responsibility to distribute ration that will last for 15 days to them.

7 kg and 1 pack of biscuits

each distributed to 15 people in Kimrusa village at Goghat 1 block in Hooghly district.

500 families

have received ration in Burdhwan, along with 100 families in North Parganas and ration has also been distributed in Siliguri.

25 families

Ration provided to 25 families in Kakdwip block in Sundarban.

Ration distributed

in Subhashgram Path-Chakra, South 24 Parganas.

100+ families

reached in Patulia Gram Panchayat.

22 families

of Kharagpur block of West Midnapur district reached.

Rs. 1,00,000 donated

by the Sikkim Art of Living chapter towards the Chief Minister's Relief Fund of the Government of Sikkim.

4,000 food materials

distributed to needy families in various places of Kathmandu.

20,000 kg rice grain

6,000 kg lentils, 8,000 kg beaten rice, 4,000 liters cooking oil, 4,000 kg salt and 40,000 packets of noodles distributed to the needy and those living in Narayantar, Kapan, Nakhipot and Godavari in close coordination with the local administration.

500 families

in Surya Binayak Municipality of Bhaktapur received raw material in the first week of April.