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In the wake of COVID-19, Indian Muslim Relief and Charities (IMCR) is continuing its relief work beyond Ramadan by engaging in sponsorship of meals and rehabilitation.
IMCR has been instrumental in organizing annual feeding programmes in Ramadan with help from its partner Sahayata Trust. Together, they distribute groceries, Iftar kits and essentials through their vast network of volunteers and have been working for over 38 years to provide Ramadan Ration Kits under the Ramadan Feeding Programme. The network is spread over 20 states including Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kashmir, Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.
With increasing incidents of migrant workers dying due to starvation amid the lockdown, the group, other than providing for their regular beneficiaries in remote villages, is also covering ration costs for people living on the streets and those stranded along highways in their journeys to their home states. Its Feeding Programme between April and May has benefitted over 470, 000 people with meal sponsorship of 10 million, rising from last year’s 7 million kits. Further, the team also supplied 10, 424, 000 meals, 60, 000 grocery kits and 1300 PPE kits. It has additionally been involved in covering medicine costs of 1115 families.
The relief work which had begun much earlier this year as a response to COVID-19 lockdown, is now continuing beyond the Muslim holy month. The organizations, IMCR and Sahayata Trust have recently appealed its donors to raise $75, 000 for rebuilding work in Odisha and West Bengal that have been severely hit by Cyclone Amphan two weeks back.