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Self sufficiency in the times of Covid-19
Posted on 02 May, 2020 11:26 AMReshamben, Manguben and Naseemben, strong women leaders of Vanita Shakti Mahila Sangathan and Ekta Mahila Sangathan, have always argued that government ration shops under the public distribution system should purchase all essential foodgrains from the local area, to the extent possible.
![A ‘people to people’ social solidarity enterprise in the times of Covid-19 (Image: Utthan)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/woman_farmer_photo.jpg?itok=Yaxe7Psv)
Covid-19: The road back home
Posted on 29 Apr, 2020 09:30 AMRaj Kumar, 32, a daily wager employed at a factory in Delhi had barely a thousand rupees in his wallet when he readied to rush back to his village in Halia block of Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh. On a normal April afternoon, he took the highway that leads to his district hearing about the 21-day lockdown.
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Covid-19: Oxfam India responding with relief in 14 states
Posted on 27 Apr, 2020 12:58 AMIn the last one week of starting its humanitarian relief response to fight coronavirus, Oxfam India along with its partners have provided dry ration to around 40,000 poor people, cooked meals served to nearly 40,000 migrant labourers, distributed 2660 safety kits to frontline workers and reached 4.5 million people through awareness initiatives in India.
![Oxfam India is concerned about the impact Covid-19 could have on the most vulnerable communities (Image: Oxfam India)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/oxfam-lead.jpg?itok=Qcb1O7Wb)
Covid-19 and water security in India: Magnifying inequities in an unequal world
Posted on 25 Apr, 2020 01:44 PM
![In the absence of piped water access, poor households will find it exceedingly difficult to practice regular handwashing (Image: UNICEF, Flickr Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/handwash-1.jpg?itok=Vl-ldrAZ)
Global infections from water poised to rise with climate change
Posted on 24 Apr, 2020 04:11 PMClimate change triggered heat waves threaten water availability
Ninjallama rues as she remembers, " It was a terrible summer. The heat wave was killing. Three people died in my village. People with skeletal fluorosis suffered .. "
![Water contamination, a growing concern (Image Source: IWP Flickr photos)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/floodsc_0.jpg?itok=nEjvIAPh)
Gearing to overcome water quality woes
Posted on 21 Apr, 2020 05:22 PMIndia has the most people in the world without access to safe drinking water (133.9 million). Many studies indicate that poor and marginalized populations are the worst affected from waterborne diseases resulting from the consumption of contaminated water.
![HWTS solutions are best suited for villages (Image: WaterAid)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sf2-pic-wateraid.jpg?itok=RsqVd4oY)
Vulnerable, in the time of Covid-19!
Posted on 21 Apr, 2020 09:30 AMThe Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc worldwide and India continues to be in the line of fire. While cases continue to rise, India is also experiencing a crisis of another kind, that of the lockdown affecting the livelihoods of a large number of workers from the informal sector.
![Meeting the basic needs of vulnerable communities during Covid-19 (Image Source: SOPPECOM)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/joy1.jpg?itok=J_ZRRDhL)
We are all fools
Posted on 19 Apr, 2020 04:05 PMWhich industry has seen phenomenal growth since World War II? It is food. People have been encouraged to eat more and more as part of the general consumerist thrust to increase consumption. So, the moment people's incomes have gone up they have begun consuming more food along with other things. The economy can grow only if we consume more. This is why we also have to eat more.
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Covid-19 leaves women in the line of fire
Posted on 19 Apr, 2020 06:30 AMThe Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc worldwide and India continues to be in the line of fire. While cases continue to rise, India also is experiencing a crisis of another kind, that of the lockdown affecting the livelihoods of a large number of workers from the informal sector.
![Covid treats women differently (Image Source: Simon Williams/ Ekta Parishad via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/women_1.jpg?itok=ohmG14Td)
WASH in the times of COVID-19
Posted on 17 Apr, 2020 10:08 PMMaharashtra has the highest COVID-19 cases in the country and the government is taking a slew of measures to flatten the curve. We speak to Mr.
![Students handwashing with soap (Image: World Bank, Flickr Commons; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/handwashing-soap.jpg?itok=EGI_3QFB)