The Imprints l CSR Newsletter

May 21st, 2021

About InfoAnalytica

At InfoAnalytica, we understand that we are an integral part of a community beyond our business. Through InfoAnalytica Foundation , our efforts are focused on building sustainable, happy communities. We touch thousands of lives yearly through our interventions in quality education, preventive healthcare, heritage conservation,holistic development and , empowering women. We collaborate with academic institutions , development , and non-profit organizations to attain shared goals.

ABOUT THE AHMEDABAD PROJECT :

The Ahmedabad Project aims to create equitable and empathetic cities across India. As India urbanizes rapidly, cities are expanding but without considering the massive influx of migrants from villages who come to the city for earning a livelihood. Cities are also facing challenges of traffic, garbage disposal, water shortages, and disappearance of the city's green cover. The Ahmedabad Project works through policy engagement with citizens, workshops on governance, policy cafes and fellowships on civic issues. We think our cities will be more livable when enough citizens understand who their ward councillors are, what their corporation does, and how to evaluate and make better policies.

OUR RESPONSE TO COVID 19:

Last year has been a traumatic experience for all of us. With nationwide lockdown and migrant distress, InfoAnalytica Foundation and The Ahmedabad Project attempted to do whatever could be done in their capacity. We distributed around 4,200 Ration Kits, 4,10,000+ meals, 80,000+ cooked meals through our Community Kitchen initiative and around 700+ migrants were sent home. More than 1,100 masks and PPE Kits were distributed.

OUR COVID 19 RESPONSE PICTURES

And we did not stop here. With Covid 19 second wave, we re-started our campaign continuing some of the previous year’s interventions like distribution of Ration Kits and introduced some new initiatives according to the need of the hour. The second wave came unannounced and was more destructive this time. The challenges were unfamiliar and more advanced. With shortage of oxygen beds to basic medicines, the organization put its best foot forward to reduce the adverse impact of the second wave.

INITIATIVES:

IMMUNITY BOOSTER KIT:

We started with a doctor prescribed Immunity Booster Kit for free to anyone who was Covid positive or had mild symptoms. This kit was also given as a preemptive measure to those who could be vulnerable to Covid infections. We have distributed around 3,000+ Immunity Booster Kits so far across 8 cities in the state of Gujarat through a dedicated helpline number. Immunity kit poster Picture of beneficiary with kits

MEAL DISTRIBUTION DRIVE

300+ cooked meals are being distributed in the slums of Ahmedabad through our Community Kitchen initiative. Daily, with the support of partnered NGOs and volunteers on the ground, we send out cooked food packs in slums and to the homeless.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR COVID19 BILLS AND MORE:

We sponsored the airfare of Rahul, the security guard of Westgate Office building whose father passed away from Covid19 in a village near Kanpur. Rahul and his brother managed to make it in time to cremate their father with dignity and last rites after changing two flights to reach there from Ahmedabad.

RATION KIT DISTRIBUTION:

We wanted to give rations to those who wanted to cook their own food. One kit typically contains (Aata - 3 kgs, Rice - 2 kgs, Dal - 1 kg, Haldi - 100 gms, Jeera - 100 gms, Mirchi - 100 gms and salt - 500 gms) which can sustain a family of 4 for at least 10 days. We have given 300+ kits so far.