The 21 day lockdown will be the hardest for daily wage workers and underprivileged. Here's your chance to help them TANVI PATEL e can agree that the poor, the marginalised and the daily wage labourers are some of the worst-hit people due to the COVID-19 outbreak. It is impossible for them to work from home and thus, they have been putting their lives in danger trying to earn a
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livelihood by stepping out of their homes. l Most of us have stocked up on groceries, vegetables and other essentials. But what about those who cannot afford to do that? To ensure daily wage labourers or the underprivileged don't go hungry during the 21-day COVID-19 lockdown, many people have volunteered to come to their aid. l One such amazing group is based in Bengaluru. This team of 30 volunteers are professional or aspiring Chartered Accountants (CA) of the CAPS coaching class, who have come together to help the needy living in and around Bengaluru. l In a short period, the group has benefited over 500 families! l Spreading Hope Amidst the COVID-19
Panic: l We got in touch with one of the volunteers, Shravan M Rao, a 25-year-old CA aspirant. "Even before the nationwide lockdown, we could see that the daily wage workers were badly hit by the pandemic. We wanted to help them out in our capacity and the easiest and the quickest way of doing that was to ensure they have an adequate supply of food and groceries even when the shops are shut. So that's the initiative we took," he tells The Better India (TBI). l The group started with sharing a video on social media, circulating their number in public. Their idea was for people on social media to share that number with
