CROWD FUNDING
If the money we donate helps one child or ease the pain of one family,
those funds are well spent.
LOCK-DOWN HUNGER
As designers we wished to address the people
who faced hunger due to this quarantine.
People like migrants, daily wages ,homeless
people suffered a lot from hunger due to the
lock down and are still suffering. Besides
humans, animals also were affected
profoundly. So, we the members of Chalkpiece,
came up with the idea of crowd funding along
side 3 organisations to raise funds for the
People in need.
D4V
D4V Volunteers group started by common people who had joined together during 2015 flood in rescue and relief activities at Chennai and Cuddalore. Started in Dec 5 2015. Its now a government registered Society carrying out various welfare activities across the state of Tamil Nadu.
MARINA MEMS
Memes reach faster than news.
Marina memes is a team with few people helping
the people in this lock down. A meme is a virally transmitted image embellished with text, usually sharing pointed commentary on cultural symbols, social ideas, or current events.
Lockdown and its impact on inward migrant workers of Chennai
In Chennai, more than 25 Lakh of migrant worker has been affected which is 71.44 % of its total labor force and 23% of its total population. The inward migration to Chennai is basically from northern parts of India, north-east and eastern India, while the current situation leads to reverse migration of migrant workers from Chennai to their home state. In Chennai, 74 % of migrant workers belongs to with-in state only, 24 % migrant workers are from other states of India and the rest are from abroad. These workers are majorly involved in Construction, manufacturing, service sector and textile industry in Chennai.
Lockdown and its impact on Daily Wage Workers
There are about 139 million daily laborers in
the country approximately, according to the World Economic
Forum. The International Labour Organization has said that
due to the pandemic and the lockdown, about 400 million
workers have been poverty-stricken. Daily-wage laborers are often denied adequate healthcare, nutrition, housing, and sanitation, as many
of them work in the informal sector. Daily-wage laborers
are mostly from rural areas but are found in cities for work.
Many workers have no savings and live in factory dormitories, which were shut down due to the lockdown. As per survey there are more number of
families in Chennai that find it hard to fulfill even
one meal per day.
Chalkpiece Along With D4V
D4V is an NGO, which helped migrants and
their families. There are more than 200 families
in and around Chennai who were struggling for
at least 1 meal per day. They urgently needed
200 kg rice to be sustain their daily lives.
Overall these families needed around 1000 kg
rice which costed more than 30k.
Chalkpiece along with D4V collected 25k and
migrant workers and families that were
severely affected due to the pandemic.
COLLECTED AROUND
5K
FOR MIGRANT WORKERS
Chalkpiece Along With Marina Memes
COLLECTED AROUND
3.3K
DAILY WAGE WORKERS
Marina memes is a team with few people helping
the people in this lock down. They particularly
focused on supporting daily wagers and their
families. As per survey there are more number of
families in Chennai that find it hard to fulfill even
one meal per day. So Chalkpiece, along with
Marina memes started a lock down relief fund to
help around 50 daily wager families, whose lives
came to a stand still.
The funds were raised by posting memes and
sharing content through social media.
We have planned to provide a relief pack for those
50 families containing rice, chili powder, wheat,
tamarind, rava and oil. Overall, we came up with a
funding of Rs. 3300 and helped few families with
provisions.
Our Achivement
By the end of our fund collection, chalkpiece
collected around Rs.8,300 and helped migrant
workers and daily wage workers. We are still
trying to help the homeless.
