Responding to the Second Wave of the COVID pandemic in Indian Cities
We are nearing the end of the second wave in India, and it was barely a month ago that India had peaked the COVID-19 pandemic and was clocking more than 400,000 cases and 4000 deaths a day. Like the first wave, the surge in cases brought to the fore the lack of health care infrastructure […]
COVID Relief Operations – Behind the Scenes
Most of the NGOs in India are engaged in COVID relief. Implementing a relief program at a big scale entails systematic and coordinated efforts. More so, because of the type of pandemic dealing with. The need of the hour is to reach out to most needy people urgently, but with absolute safety and protection to […]
Haunting Malnutrition Crisis in India
India is staring at an acute malnutrition crisis. It can be attributed to the fatigued health structures, food availability, and the haunting high status of malnutrition. To add to the woes economic crisis created by COVID-19 pandemic has completely made the status quo uncontrollable. UNICEF in its report has warned that a staggering, 1.2 million […]
Building community resilience towards Drought
“Drought is a big challenge in our village. The information on rainfall pattern and availability will be very useful to us. Earlier we didn’t have such information and had to suffer huge losses because of crop failure. I as a Climate Change Volunteer feel very happy to share such information to the other farmers in […]
Village Development Committees A Vital Support System to the Villagers
IGSSS began its humanitarian journey not merely as a charity. It aimed to make the communities self-dependent. We consciously evolved and continued exploring for ways to maximize the impact, empower the communities to take charge of their own lives, enable them and build a better present and future for themselves. To execute this, it is […]
Happy Pride Month!
Sex and Gender. We often have been using them interchangeably in our daily lives. However, these two words, in terms of meanings, are related but different. Sex is a biological categorization based primarily on reproductive potential, whereas gender is the social elaboration of biological sex. Gender builds on biological sex, but it exaggerates biological difference, […]
Seed Balls Promoting Biodiversity
Seed Balls are enabling the community to restore Nature and the Environment. We live in times when biodiverse species and trees have become endangered commodities. While policy changes are crucial to bringing about sustainable change, the villagers in Kansil Village in Kalahandi district, Odisha has taken to regenerate their surroundings that have been abuse by […]
Our response to Cyclone Amphan
On 16 May 2020 India and Bangladesh faced a crisis within a crisis. A super cyclone formed in the Bay of Bengal, first of its kind after 1999. It was named Amphan (pronounced Um-Pan), a name given by Thailand which is a member of World Meteorological Organisation/United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and […]
IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON SMALL FARMERS AND DAILY WAGE EARNERS
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to grave implications on the small farmers and daily wage earners. The first two phase lockdown of a nation of 1.3 billion people has impacted extremely severe on the lives as well as the livelihood of the people in our operational villages as per IGSSS developmental project rapid research. The […]
IGSSS at 60 is a Frontline Responder
COVID-19 Relief Response It has been more than two months since COVID-19 has been declared a pandemic. Other than the virus affecting people’s health, the much-required nationwide lockdown has added on to the crisis, exposing the marginalised communities to hunger, loss of livelihood and loss of dignity. IGSSS immediately responded to the crisis through relief […]
Perspective: Covid 19 Crisis and its Impact on the Urban Poor
As the country goes into a complete lockdown, the severely impacted are the urban poor especially Informal-Sector workers and the Homeless. They are in dire situations as they are not able to work during this time and have nowhere else to go. The informal workers in India constitute as many as 90% of the total […]
Leaving No One Behind: Transgender Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is one of the core thematic competency of Indo-Global Social Service Society (IGSSS). IGSSS strives for “Building Back Better” through humanitarian response, and building resilience of the communities in the most risk-prone regions. Indian Government has adopted the Sendai Framework, which is a 15-year, voluntary, non-binding agreement, which recognizes that the […]