Annexure 1

COVID-19 RELIEF AND AWARENESS

Submitted by :
Vansh Nitin Patel

Registration Number:
12017638

In partial fulfilment for the requirements of the award of the degree of

“B.Tech. (CSE - Data Science (ML and AI))”

“School of Engineering”

PHAGWARA, PUNJAB

 Annexure 2
(CERTIFICATE)

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my special thanks of gra tude to my project guide

Mr. Saqlain Mustaque,(Turning Point Consultancy services) as well as our
University which gave me the golden opportunity to do this wonderful
Community Development project on the topic “Covid-19 Relief ”, which also
encouraged me indoing a lot of research and i came to know about so many new
things I am really thankful to them.
Secondly I would also like to thank my parents and friends who helped me a
lot in nalising this project within the limited me frame

Date : 6 June-9 July 2021

Name: Vansh Ni n Patel
Reg no: 12017638
Roll No:RK20CHB60
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.0 Introduc on
1. Problem Iden ca on and the Cause of the Problem
2. Problem Iden ca on
3. Cause of the Problem
3.0 Objec ve to be achieved

4.0 Various Steps taken to achieve the objec ves

5.0 About the organisa on

6.0 E ec veness of the Project
7.0 World Health Organiza on report
8.0 Personal Project
9.0 Tes monial of the work done

10.0 Conclusion
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 INTRODUCTION

The COVID-19 pandemic in India is a part of the worldwide pandemic of

coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory

syndromecoronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2).

COVID-19, which originated regionally from a lab in Wuhan in China. It

hasbecome a global pandemic by infecting the people of almost all the world.

This pandemic has become threat for their survival and livelihood.Till date there is

no permanent solution for this beast.In every part of the the world citizens are

convinced to enhance awareness and take precautions by changing their living

style.In the view of this, this study attempted to assess the awareness and relief in

this tough time.

Proper strategies and funds were set up by WHO globally to protect the countries

with special focus on poor and weaker health infrastructure developing countries.

The aim was to reduce the virus communication in society, dissemination of

crucial information, providing proper healthcare and to minimize social and

economical loss. WHO also focused on establishing an easy and effective

diagnostic system to prevent infection.

 Problem Iden ca on and Cause of the Problem

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a drama c loss of human life worldwide and
presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and the
world of work. The economic and social disrup on caused by the pandemic is
devasta ng: tens of millions of people are at risk of falling into extreme
poverty, while the number of undernourished people, currently es mated at
nearly 690 million, could increase by up to 132 million by the end of the
year.Informal economy workers are par cularly vulnerable because the
majority lack social protec on and access to quality health care and have lost
access to produc ve assets.

Without the means to earn an income during lockdowns, many

are unable to feed themselves and their families. For most, no income means
no food, or, at best, less food and less nutri ous food. Millions of agricultural
workers – wages and self-employed – while feeding the world, regularly face
high levels of working poverty, malnutri on and poor health, and su er from a
lack of safety and labour protec on as well as other types of abuse. With low
and irregular incomes and a lack of social support, many of them are spurred
to continue working, often in unsafe condi ons, thus exposing themselves and
their families to addi onal risks. Further, when experiencing income losses,
they may resort to nega ve coping strategies, such as distress sale of assets,
predator loans of child labour.
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 Migrant agricultural workers are par cularly vulnerable, because they face
risks in their transport, working and living condi ons and struggle to access
support measures put in place by governments. Guaranteeing the safety and
health of all agri-food workers – from primary producers to those involved in
food processing, transport and retail, including street food vendors – as well as
be er incomes and protec on, will be cri cal to saving lives and protec ng public
health, people’s livelihoods and food security


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 Cause of the problem

In the COVID-19 crisis food security, public health, and employment and labor issues,
in par cular workers’ health and safety, converge. Adhering to workplace safety and
health prac ces and ensuring access to decent work and the protec on of labour
rights in all industries will be crucial in addressing the human dimension of
the crisis. Immediate and purposeful ac on to save lives and livelihoods should
include extending social protec on towards universal health coverage and income
support for those most a ected. These include workers in the informal economy
and in poorly protected and low-paid jobs, including youth, older workers, and
migrants. Par cular a en on must be paid to the situa on of women, who are over-
represented in low-paid jobs and care roles. Di erent forms of support are key,
including cash transfers, child allowances and healthy school meals, shelter and
food relief ini a ves, support for employment reten on and recovery, and financial
relief for businesses, including micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
In designing and implemen ng such measures it is essen al that government
work closely with employers and workers.

Countries dealing with exis ng humanitarian crises or emergencies are par cularly
exposed to the e ects of COVID-19. Responding swi ly to the pandemic, while
ensuring that humanitarian and recovery assistance reaches those most in need, is
critical.

The employment crisis became an unfortunate consequence, as India cycled

through lockdowns of varying severity and duration during the COVID-19
pandemic. The unemployment rate, at approximately 7.2 percent in January 2020
shot up to 23.5 percent in April 2020, and uctuated over the year to end at about
seven percent (up from approximately 5.3 percent in 2019). Based on these
numbers, it would seem that employment has recovered to some extent. However,
a closer look at the situa on reveals a clear gender bias in this recovery, especially
for women from low - income.
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 In October and November 2020, Dalberg conducted one of the largest
studies around the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 on women from
low-income households, analysing data of more than 17,000 respondents from
across 10 Indian states. The study was primarily based on telephonic interviews,
supported by evidence from other studies wherever needed .

 Objec ve to be achieved

Objec ves:
● To spread self-awareness and safety among the people regarding
the covid-19.
● To feed the needy people who have a nancial crunch and are unable to arrange
their food.
● To examine the impact of various stressors on the well-being of students during
COVID-19.
● To examine the impact on the educa onal system due to COVID-19.

Expected Outcomes:
● Our team will be able to ensure awareness among the people in their
respec ve areas though posters, blogs, in-person meet, interac ve
videos.
● The concerned students will be able to analyze the stress management
crunched by the educa onal system completely.
● Some needy people will be able to get food for at least 1 day.
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 Various Steps Taken to achieve the objec ve

This community development project aims to generate social awareness during

this global pandemic. I took the decision to work with TPCS(Turning point
consultancy services) as a volunteer. I joined the team and helped several
communi es to ght in this cri cal situa on. The main work of our team was to
spread social awareness through our various skills such as blogs wri ng, though
various posters, e cacious Videos.

TPCs divided all the members in various teams to handle di erent aspects of our
work. I was assigned work to write blogs and distribute food to the needy people
through the funds generated by us. Blogs, or Web logs, are online journals
that are updated frequently, some mes even daily. An update, (also called an entry
or a post) is usually quite short, perhaps just a few sentences, and readers can o en
respond to an entry online. TPCs arrange various meetings on a daily basis to support
and guide us.

Perhaps the most important insight from the global COVID-19 response to date
has been that to successfully slow transmission and protect health systems, it is
essen al to accurately diagnose and e ec vely isolate and care for all cases of
COVID-19 including cases with mild or moderate disease (in health se ng or home
se ng, depending on the context and degree of illness).

As COVID-19 transmission has advanced globally, the primary focus of most

countries has been the rapid iden ca on, tes ng and treatment of pa ents with
serious and severe COVID-19, and the sheltering of individuals at the highest risk of
poor outcomes.
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 Fewer have put in place measures for those with mild disease, or contacts of
cases. Countries must do everything they can to stop cases from becoming clusters
and clusters from becoming explosive outbreaks. They must put in place the
capaci es for tes ng and diagnosis, isola on, contact tracing and quaran ne; they
must engage everyone in the response.

I wrote a blog that mainly focuses on the adverse e ect on the educa onal
system in many parts of the countries. I took the example of U ar Pradesh(Indian
state) to explain the scenario.A renewed focus on large-scale public health capaci es
must be implemented with urgency. The world stands at a pivotal juncture in the
course of this pandemic.

Every country should be implemen ng a comprehensive set of measures,

calibrated to their capacity and context, to slow down transmission and reduce mortality
associated with COVID-19, ul mately with the aim of reaching and/or maintaining a steady
state of low-level or no transmission.

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Appropriate strategies at the na onal level and subna onal level must balance
measures that address the direct mortality a ributable to COVID-19, the indirect
mortality caused by the overwhelming of health systems and the interrup on of other
essen al health and social services, and the acute and long-term detrimental e ects
on health and wellbeing of the socioeconomic consequences of certain response
measures.

Maintaining a steady state of low-level or no transmission is important because, as the

pandemic has spread, its public health and socioeconomic impacts have been
profound, and have dispropor onately a ected the vulnerable. Many popula ons have
already experienced a lack of access to rou ne, essen al health services.

Migrants, refugees, displaced popula ons, and residents of high-density and

informal se lements, are at a par cularly high risk from the interrup on of already
limited health and social services. The closure of schools increases the risk of
some students being neglected, abused or exploited, and risks the interrup on of
basic services such as school meals. Every ac on taken now to slow the
transmission of COVID-19 is an ac on that brings forward the day that these
services can return.

Covid19 has made a digital division by enforcing a transi on from o ine

schooling to online, which is not only depriving many children of learning but also
obstruc ng their mental state and social deportment. I am a college student. I can
writepages on the burden that we are going through. But please have an eyeshot at the
innocent children globally, who are fostering primary educa on and have to sit
pondering at the digital screen for 4-5 hours(just boring).Educa on is not limited to
reading books only, but it is a boon to get a complete development of a student.

The covid19 crisis has compelled the school and colleges to get shut down for more
than 1.5 years now. We were not prepared for the same situa on before. There is a lack
of trained schools, teachers and inadequate learning materials. Exams are conducted
online and students are o en found to use unfair means in order to pass the exams
which is nally degrading the quality of educa on .
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 Most of the private schools in Bihar reside in either villages/small towns,
teachersand mentors don't have much idea about digital pla orms so, they use to send
the reading materials on Whatsapp and instruct the students to understand by
themselves.Now I ask you a ques on -Can a student of class 5 will understand by
himself? The answer is for sure-NO. This situa on may be in every part of India.
Every student has to depend on private tui ons which were also shut down. Manychildren
were deprived of even a mid day meal.

About the Organisa on.

TPCS is an innova ve learning Non-Pro t Organiza on created to improve the

quality of educa on in India. Established in 2019 to provide educa on to children
of India who can't a ord an educa on at big private ins tutes, TPCS has grown in
both scope and scale, with programs today reaching children and youth across the
country.
As one of the largest non-pro t organiza ons in the country, TPCS focuses on high-
quality, low-cost, and replicable interven ons to address gaps in the educa on
system. Working directly with children and youth as well as through large-scale
collabora ons with government schools, TPCS programs reach thousands of lives
every year.

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 Effectiveness of the project

Successful implementa on of adap ve COVID-19 preparedness and response
strategies will depend on all of society being engaged in the plan, and strong na onal
and subna onal coordina on. 5 To provide coordinated management of COVID-19
preparedness and response, na onal public health emergency management
mechanisms, including a mul disciplinary na onal coordina on cell or incident
management structure, should be ac vated, with the engagement of relevant
ministries such as health, foreign a airs, nance, educa on, transport, travel and
tourism, public works, water and sanita on, environment, social protec on and
agriculture. In certain contexts, this may be through the support of Na onal Disaster
Management or other crisis management authori es. If they have not done so
already, na onal authori es should, as a ma er of urgency, develop opera onal plans
to address COVID-19. Plans should include capacity assessments and risk analyses to
iden fy high-risk and vulnerable popula ons. Plans should include civil society and
na onal NGOs to extend the reach of public health and socioeconomic interven ons.
Na onal plans should also be developed for the preven on and mi ga on of the
social impacts of the crisis, including areas of the response that dispropor onately
a ect women and girls. Ensuring that global recommenda ons and communica ons
are tested and adapted to local contexts is an essen al part of helping countries to
empower communi es to own the response andcontrol the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 Informed and empowered popula ons can protect themselves by taking measures at
individual and community level that will reduce the risk of transmission. By contrast,
misleading, ambiguous, and false informa on can have serious nega ve public health
consequences, including by undermining adherence to physical distancing measures
and movement restric ons, promo ng the hoarding and inappropriate use of
essen al supplies and equipment, and encouraging the inappropriate use of
poten ally dangerous or fatal cura ve and prophylac c measures without any
evidence of bene t. In all the above, countries must ensure that communi es,
including the most hard-to-reach and vulner.

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According to the World Health Organiza on’s report
Closing the Gap in a Genera on:
Health Equity through Ac on on the Social Determinants of Health, “poor and
unequal living condi ons are the consequences of deeper structural condi ons
that together fashion the way socie es are organized—poor social policies and
programs, unfair economic arrangements, and bad poli cs.”This toxic combina on
of factors as they play out during this me of crisis, and as early news on the e ect
of the COVID-19 pandemic pointed out, is dispropor onately a ec ng African
American communi es in the United States. I recognize that the pandemic has had
and is having devasta ng e ects on other minori es as well, but space does not
permit this essay to explore the impact on
other minority groups.Employing a human rights lens in this analysis
helps us translate needs and social problems into rights, focusing our a en on
on the broader socio poli cal structural context as the cause of the social
problems.
Human rights highlight the inherent dignity and worth of all people, who are the
primary rights-holders.Governments (and other social actors, such as corpora ons)
are the duty-bearers, and as such have the obliga on to respect, protect, and ful ll
human rights.Human rights cannot be separated from the societal contexts in
which they are recognized, claimed, enforced, and ful lled. Speci cally, social
rights, which include the right to health, can become important tools for
advancingpeople’s ci zenship and enhancing their ability to par cipate as ac ve
members ofsociety. Such an understanding of social rights calls our a en on to

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the concept of equality, which requires that we place a greater emphasis on

“solidarity” and the “collec ve.” Furthermore, in order to generate equality,
solidarity, and social integra on, the ful llment of social rights is not op onal. In
order to ful ll social integra on, social policies need to re ect a commitment to
respect and protect the most vulnerable individuals and to create the condi onsfor
the ful llment of economic and social rights for all.
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 PERSONAL PROJECT

ABOUT THIS BLOG :- This blog is regarding vaccina on drives of India & how
we can get vaccinated? At what age we should take the vaccina on?( LINK TO
THE BLOG )
This blog is written by Vansh Nitin Patel.

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TESTIMONIALS OF THE WORK DONE
BY THE NGO (TPCS)

 CONCLUSION

The purpose of the project is to spread social awareness among the people how to
handle these tough situa ons emo onally and nancially.
The coronavirus disease con nues to spread across the world following a trajectorythat
is di cult to predict. The health, humanitarian and socio-economic policies adopted
by countries will determine the speed and strength of the recovery. We allhave been
a ected by the current COVID-19 pandemic.
However, the impact of the pandemic and its consequences are felt di erently
depending on our status as individuals and as members of society. While some try to
adapt to working online, homeschooling their children and ordering food via
Instacart, others have no choice but to be exposed to the virus while keeping
societyfunc oning. Our di erent social iden es and the social groups we belong to
determine our inclusion within society and, by extension, our vulnerability to
epidemics.
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