May 1 , International Labour day: COVID crisis has already put many Nepali labours out of work. For daily wage workers, lockdown is more dangerous than the corona virus. Daily wage labourers are among the hardest hit by the restrictions. The situation is very uncertain and it’s difficult to survive for them due to lack of food.

The Women’s Foundation is doing our best to feed the hungry coordinating with the locals and distributing the cooked food for more than 650 people per day where the hungry people can be ascertained with effective distribution via Open Heart Kitchen.

Day 2 : Relief Distribution and Open Kitchen during the Covid-19 pandemic by Women’s Foundation

The Women’s Foundation feel proud that we are always at the forefront of charitable initiatives in such a crisis/disasters. And it is all possible with the support bighearted donors, friends and family of the Foundation. We thank you all our donors, friends, staffs and local people for supporting our program to make it more effective to reach people in need in such difficult time.

Relief Distribution and Open Kitchen during the Covid-19 pandemic by Women’s Foundation

The extension of lockdown as a measure to slowdown the spread of the disease has been rising a problem to the people in need. In this regards, the Women’s Foundation started to distribute relief package of 25 kg rice, pulse, salt, oil and vegetables to 3217 families’ house to house and door to door up to now who are affected by the lockdown.

Renu Sharma, President of Women’s Foundation said, “The focus of the relief distribution were women, children and pregnant women. However, we have seen many elderly, sick, poor and differently able people in the communities in need and we have focused our relief distribution to them too. Additionally, we have launched an Open Kitchen Model to eliminate duplicity and to help those who even do not have cooking fuels ensuring social distance and hygiene”

The Women’s Foundation is doing our best to feed the hungry coordinating with the locals and distributing the cooked food for 500 people per day where the hungry people can be ascertained with effective distribution via Open Kitchen Model. The Women’s Foundation feel proud that we are always at the forefront of charitable initiatives in such a crisis/disasters. And it is all possible with the support bighearted donors, friends and family of the Women’s Foundation.

Also, people and NGOs are making a great effort to help the poor people in need and it should be increased at every macro-level at the communities. We thank you all our donors, friends, staffs and local people for supporting our program to make it more effective to reach people in need in such difficult time.

As the covid19 crisis is continuing to affect the world, we are striving to provide relief to those affected .Our thoughts also go out to anyone struggling indirectly from the effects of the virus. We know that this is affecting not just our health, but our daily routines.Daily earning laborers are mostly affected by the lock down. For us, all of these concerns are important and worthy of our attention.

As the lockdown continues to push the most underprivileged into despair WFN has distributed much needed essential daily food supplies to the people in need through our relief work. On 23rd and 24th April, we distributed 327 families with the essential food supplies and which also includes vegetables. WFN has supported for about 1950 families during this time of crisis. The relief distribution program is still ongoing.

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WFN Provides emergency relief  for women in need during lock down.

Nepal COVID-19 lock down means no food for the poor . Lockdown as a safety precautions from COVID-19 as a Government directions has been very helpful to stop the numbers of infections of Corona virus. Although most people in the cities are staying home, there is growing worry about a prolonged shutdown leading to food shortages, economic hardship. The global nature of this pandemic has hit Nepal’s economy hard.There is also increasing number of the urban poor who depend on daily wages for the food.

The teenagers from the WFN Home had a great time out with the working interntional volunteers for a climbing trip at Thamel,Kathmandu. After safety introduction and warm up games, the teenagers climbed the 15m high wall at the game spot Astrek Climbing Center. Everybody was really brave and happy and they learned how to belay each other. Everyone did a good job taking the big responsibility. The day was full of excitement, thrill and new experience.

Renu sharma, President of The Women’s Foundation of Nepal has been honored by the Ramesh Vikal Literary Foundation. She was provided with the “Ramesh Bikas Sushil Sangrashasil Narisewa Puraskar 2076” award by the Chief Guest of the program, Satyamohan Joshi on 21st of December. The award was conferred in her recognition of her outstanding contribution in the social sector.

The sewing training was provided from 25th of November, 2019 to 24th of March, 2020. The women were actively participated in sewing training. The main aim is to provide women with the skillful training of sewing.

We would like to thank Jacques and Pile et Face family for all their support. We have been able to provide women with this training program which would not have been possible without their generous support.