India has recovered from the devastating effects of COVID-19, but the pandemic has ravaged the lives of people in southern Rajasthan, where the average daily income is less than $0.70 (Rs. 52). Initially, we provided temporary support to these families by distributing relief kits and arranging medical facilities. Now, we are focusing on long-term sustainable measures. Your donation will help create lasting opportunities for these rural communities through various livelihood activities.
Many villagers who were working outside returned to their villages during the 2020 lockdown. Most of them are still facing financial difficulties which is also adding to their social stress. This trend is not unique to our area; it reflects a broader issue faced by rural communities across India in the post-pandemic era. With limited opportunities for employment and a heavy reliance on agriculture, rural areas struggle to provide sustainable livelihoods for residents.
We have been working in southern Rajasthan for the last 56 years and understand the challenges that the local communities continue to face. Our approach of dealing with the economic fallout of Post Covid is based on the immediate and long term needs of these communities. We are working on providing livelihood opportunities to local residents.
Seva Mandir's mission is to make real the idea of society consisting of free and equal citizens who are able to come together and solve the problems that affect them in their particular contexts. The commitment is to work for a paradigm of development and governance that is democratic and polyarchic. Seva Mandir seeks to institutionalise the idea that development and governance is not only to be left to the State and its formal bodies like the legislature and the bureaucracy, but that citizens and their associations should engage separately and jointly with the State. The mission briefly, is to construct the conditions in which citizens of plural backgrounds and perspectives can come together and deliberate on how they can work to benefit and empower the least advantaged in society.
Many villagers who were working outside returned to their villages during the 2020 lockdown. Most of them are still facing financial difficulties which is also adding to their social stress. This trend is not unique to our area; it reflects a broader issue faced by rural communities across India in the post-pandemic era. With limited opportunities for employment and a heavy reliance on agriculture, rural areas struggle to provide sustainable livelihoods for residents.
We have been working in southern Rajasthan for the last 56 years and understand the challenges that the local communities continue to face. Our approach of dealing with the economic fallout of Post Covid is based on the immediate and long term needs of these communities. We are working on providing livelihood opportunities to local residents.
Seva Mandir's mission is to make real the idea of society consisting of free and equal citizens who are able to come together and solve the problems that affect them in their particular contexts. The commitment is to work for a paradigm of development and governance that is democratic and polyarchic. Seva Mandir seeks to institutionalise the idea that development and governance is not only to be left to the State and its formal bodies like the legislature and the bureaucracy, but that citizens and their associations should engage separately and jointly with the State. The mission briefly, is to construct the conditions in which citizens of plural backgrounds and perspectives can come together and deliberate on how they can work to benefit and empower the least advantaged in society.
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