When disaster strikes, the poorest lose the most – their work, their food and often their homes. Sadh Samaj Charitable Trust has stepped in during floods and the Covid-19 pandemic with food, clothes, medicines and masks, delivered by its own members.
Covid-19 relief, 2020–21
When the lockdown left daily-wage workers without work or food, the trust changed how it ran its kitchens overnight:
- Meals made free: the Rs 5 charge for Ghar Ki Rasoi meals was dropped, and the van got a curfew pass for its volunteers
- Delhi: free meals twice a day for 1,400–2,000 people a day (spring 2020), at about Rs 15 a person
- Farrukhabad: 500–600 lunch packets a day, handed out with the district administration to brick-kiln workers’ families, tent settlements, passers-by and ambulance staff
- 10,000 masks handed out free; dry-ration kits (atta, dal, rice, sugar, oil, spices) for families in Delhi, Noida and Farrukhabad
- About Rs 17 lakh raised by the trust’s members for its Corona Relief Fund in the first days of the lockdown
- 2021 second wave: a Covid doctor saw patients every evening at the trust’s Lajpat Nagar dispensary; help with hospital beds, oxygen and medicines; rations for 100 families
Three members of the Delhi Legislative Assembly wrote to thank the trust for this work in 2020 – read their letters on our Media page.
Floods, fires and earthquakes
- Early 2010s Yamuna floods, Delhi: a relief camp on the banks of the Yamuna gave clothes and food packets to families whose homes were flooded.
- 22 Jun 2013 Uttarakhand floods: the trust’s members packed thousands of packets of food, medicines and clothes in Delhi and sent them to the affected villages in Uttarakhand.
- Kashmir The trust also sent relief to families hit by the floods in Kashmir.
- Apr 2015 Nepal earthquake: Rs 1,00,000 from the trust for the victims.
- May 2018 Slum fire, Barola (Noida): food for the families of 400–500 people who had lost everything.
- May 2020 Jhuggi fire, Tughlakabad: three days of meals for the families.
- Jul 2023 Yamuna floods, Delhi: the food van served flood-hit families at Mayur Vihar for 12 days in a row.
Help us be ready for the next emergency
A general donation lets the trust act within hours when the next flood, cold wave or emergency comes.
कोविड-19 और बाढ़ राहत
कोविड-19 लॉकडाउन (2020–21) में ट्रस्ट ने ₹5 का शुल्क हटाकर भोजन मुफ़्त कर दिया, फ़ूड वैन दिन में दो बार चलाई, रोज़ 300–400 मास्क बाँटे और दिल्ली व फ़र्रुख़ाबाद में रोज़ लगभग 2,200 लोगों को भोजन कराया। ट्रस्ट ने यमुना बाढ़ (दिल्ली), उत्तराखंड बाढ़ (जून 2013) और कश्मीर बाढ़ में भी भोजन, कपड़े और दवाइयाँ पहुँचाईं।