Media Sensitization on COVID Response and RPD Act @CBMIndia @dfat @GiveIndia @HSBC

25 June 2020, Dumka: NBJK organized a media sensitisation event on its response to COVID-19 and about the steps to follow RPD Act 2016. Mr. Anand Abhinav (Program Director, NBJK) addressed a group of local media people and members of DPOs promoted under the program of CBID with support of CBM.

He thanked DPOs’ members those played crucial role in awareness generation upon the issues of mask wearing- soap hand washing and social distancing. The members have stitched and distributed 7449 masks among the community & front-line Corona warriors, he appreciated. Also the DPOs leaders shared their activities during lock down period for Corona prevention and execution strategy of RPD Act 16.

Mr. Anand Abhinav said about the specific campaign of COVID-19 Response, which provided immediate relief to the people affected by Covid and subsequent Lockdown. This includes immediate access of relief materials by the sufferers and mass awareness upon preventive measures for Corona. He informed journalists that the organization has distributed ration-hygiene kits among 2252 people (including PwDs) and demonstrated hand washing with soap before them.

It dispensed food materials among 804 families (744 PwDs), linked 317 persons (114 PwDs) with MNREGA scheme, submitted on-line UDID applications for 1038 PwDs and facilitated livelihood for 653 people including 377 PwDs as with seeds of seasonal vegetables, paddy & maize for farm based activities in time, Mr. Abhinav explained.

NBJK has provided ration-sanitation items for migrant laborers at 2 quarantine centers in Jama block, he said and added that NBJK handed over N-95 masks (100 pcs), surgical masks (500 pcs), surgical gloves (10,000 pcs), sanitizer (107 litres), infrared thermometers (9 pcs), oxygen cylinders (2 pcs), pulse oxymeters (15 pcs) to Dumka sadar hospital & blocks. Besides this, Rs. 5000 for each has been deposited in bank accounts of 21 poor families to rehabilitate the earning hands with their livelihoods.

Mr. Anand Abhinav expressed sincere gratitude to Aditya Birla Capital, Give India, HSBC, CBM and DFAT, the agencies those supported the whole campaign and spent around Rs. 10 lakhs cumulatively. Total 18 media persons and DPOs’ leaders from project locations have participated on the occasion. Team NBJK was contributed by Mr. Sudarshan Pandey (Branch Manager, NBJK-Dumka), Mr. Amrit Paswan (CBID Program Manager), Mr. Tushar Pal (Project Coordinator) and Mr. Rajkumar (Spl. Educator).