Satsang Seva Journal

Even as the capital city opens up in phases, migrant labour has started wending their way back from their villages to resume work. The Delhi-NCR SSM group distributed 1 ,500 washable, reusable cloth masks made by self-help groups in Chennai, supported by the TSF Chennai Kendra, to the homeless and destitute across the capital city over the past 10 days. The masks were distributed with the help of the Centre for Holistic Development headed by a Satsangi who helps run night shelters and food kitchens for the homeless and new migrants to the city.

  The Delhi-NCR SSM team was approached by the capital city’s largest tertiary care unit, the Deen Dayal Upadyhaya Hospital, when the pandemic was peaking to help them with supplies of disposable surgical gowns, latex gloves and N-95 masks for the use of their dedicated staff, working round the clock to deal with the influx of patients in COVID times. Dr. Ripudaman Kaur Chawla, Head of Office of the hospital who is also the Assistant Medical Superintendent, requested the team to help supply Personal Protection Equipment for their doctors in the form of : 300 Disposable Surgical Gowns 6000 pieces of latex gloves 1000 N-95 Masks While the Delhi-NCR SSM team were able to source the gloves and good quality disposable surgical gowns at a competitive price in Delhi, help was requested from the Mumbai team to procure the N95 Masks that were not readily available in the capital. Of the 6,000 pieces of gloves, 2,000 came from a donor impressed with SSM work for the medical fraternity.The Mumbai

Team SSM Coimbatore was back in action in the Nilgiris on the 14th of  August 2021. When the team members interacted with the management of the Thoorigai Trust, they were informed that schools were unable to function in full steam. Based on discussions with the teachers, they came up with workbooks for the young children so that self learning could be continued easily. The teachers and parents supported this  initiative wholeheartedly. The team members also distributed masks and demonstrated the importance of maintaining social distancing norms to  reiterate the message of safety.