My name is Paddy
Padmanabhan.(+91-94498-55201). I live in Bangalore. Here is a simple case study, where I explain how to provide
corona relief (grocery) to migrant labourers, without leaving home.
Date: 17th Apr 2020
I decided to help and wanted to
locate deserving beneficiaries. In the process of locating beneficiaries, I
spoke to my friend Balu. He has a small
factory in Coimbatore, manufacturing welding rods. I asked him if he had any migrant labourer(s)
working in his factory and if he can introduce me to that person/people. He
agreed. He gave me the phone number of a person by name Biju (+91 86670 57713).
I spoke to Biju and asked him about people living with him and about his friends. Biju told me about some of his friends who were in trouble. I requested him to send me the contact details of those friends. I told him that it would work better if those friends sent me WhatsApp messages with their names and contact details.
I received a WhatsApp Message. See image below.
WhatsApp Text below the above image read
Jagan.
Tuku. Dhuna . Biju
It was about 7:30 pm, Indian
Standard Time when I received the above image.
I called up +91-86677-33751 and spoke with Jagan. Then I asked him to
locate a nearby grocery shop and get me the contact details of the person who
owns/runs the shop. Jagan shared the contact details of the shop owner +91
99942 02908. I called up the shop owner and spoke with him in Tamil. The shop owner’s name is
Roosevelt. The shop’s name is Shobana stores. I told him that I wanted to help
those 3 boys (Jagan, Tiku and Dhuna) by paying for their grocery purchase. I
asked if I could do a bank transfer. He told me that it was possible and that
he would carry out the sale the next morning as the shop was closed as per
prohibitary orders. He sent me his bank account details. The next morning the
boys went to the shop at 10:30 AM. The boys prepared a list of grocery items
that they needed. See image of the “hand bill” below.
I transferred Rs. 700 to Mr.
Roosevelt. See online banking transaction details below.
We have managed to distribute
relief material worth Rs 1.8 lakh
(Rupees One Lakh Eighty Thousand Only) using various permutations and
combinations of the above process. We have made a choice to give Rs. 700 (Rupees
seven hundred only) worth of grocery to every group of 3 people. By this
calculation, I have covered more than seven hundred people.
See below the picture of the
items they purchased.
Please find below the picture of those
three boys and their contact details.
These boys are from Orissa.
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