COGNIZANT 

OUTREACH AND THE WE
FOUNDATION’S RAPID RESPONSE TO
THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS IN INDIA
The We Foundation’s Rapid Response Team in coordination with the Government
conducted active case searches by organizing community-based rapid screening of
families in the locations where we distributed relief kits to the families.
With kind donation from Cognizant Outreach, The We
Foundation organized a five day campaign to reach 600
families of daily wage workers and migrants with dry ration
and hygiene kits to ensure that the families have enough
food on the table for at least 15 days amid Covid crisis.
The campaign covered both rural and urban parts of
Bengal.
 Measures to curb community
spread of coronavirus

The We Foundation’s Rapid Response Team in coordination with the

Government conducted active case searches by organizing community-
based rapid screening of families in the locations where we distributed
relief kits to the families. The screening was done by Government
healthcare workers and suspected cases were linked with the nearest
Government health facilities with the help of Local Police, frontline
health workers and Block/Municipal Administration. Therefore, we are
not only ensuring food security but also curbing community spread of
the disease.
 Rural India and Urban India
Distributed

The We Foundation’s rapid response team distributed 356 food and hygiene kits to migrant and daily wagers in the select
locations. The Gram Panchayat Pradhan, Upa Pradhan were present in the relief camp. Two frontline health workers of
Government were screening the people and three suspected cases were taken to the nearby Government health centre
for covid-19 testing.
Prior to the campaign, the team of 15 members conducted a thorough screening of all households at the gram sansad
level to avoid wastage of resources and select families received food tokens, mentioning the food and hygiene kit
distribution date and time. Since social distancing is an effective way to stem the community spread of the virus, we had
given different time slots to beneficiaries to ensure the social distancing norms.

A total of 44 families of daily wage earners especially rickshaw pullers, van pullers, domestic help, carpenters, cobblers,
barbers received dry ration and hygiene kits. Most of the daily wage earners are finding it difficult to arrange two square
meals per day.
Celebrating India’s 74th Independence Day with the Homeless and Daily Wage Workers.