Project Title: Support to Low Income Workers Specially Female Workers during COVID-19 Pandemic

 Funded By: Diakonia Bangladesh

 Geographic area: Khilgaon, Rampura, Banashri, Sobujbag, Jatrabari, Kodomtoli, Mohammadpur, Kallyanpur, Hajaribag, Hemayetpur, District: Dhaka. Bangladesh.

Direct beneficiaries: Target groups are 647 marginalised low income people (specially women) and their families (total-3235 person) of different thana under Dhaka District. They mainly are engaged in garments, construction, tannery sector and mainly working as a day labour

Major Stakeholders : Government authority (DC Office, Local Police Station), Local and National Trade Union, Women Leaders, Employer, Duty Bearers and potential Construction and RMG workers are the major stakeholders.

Goal: Reduce suffering the most vulnerable working people from basic food and hygiene materials who are facing challenge to go for work during Covid-19 period at Dhaka city, Bangladesh and provide mental health support by psychosocial counseling to reduce trauma

OUTCOME(S)

A: People have some essential commodities to meet crisis period.

B: Enhanced mental capacity to adopt with pandemic situation like Covid 19.

OUTPUT(S)

1.1. Basic Food stuffs distributed to workers and their families to meet their emergency need.

1.2. Essential hygiene commodities distributed among workers and their families to prevent Covid-19.

1.3. Mental stability of target workers increased

Key activities (example tasks)

• Finalize the list of vulnerable target people disaggregated by women, men, girl children, boy children, people with disabilities, elderly women, elderly men etc.
• Procurement of food items (rice, dal, oil, potato) and other materials
• Distribution as per list
• Staff engagement to take on additional responsibilities for the emergency project
• Form group
• Provide Counseling
• Monitoring
• Financial reports
• Narrative reports
• Audit

Achievements per indicator: 647 low income workers(424female, 223 male) and their families (where 2127 female and 1108 male) being supported by the humaniterian project.

The items received was basic food (rice-15kg, dal-2kg, oil-1kg, potato-5kg,salt-1kg) and hygiene item (ditergent-2kg, soap-2pic, gloves-1pairs, mask-5pic)/ per worker.