Emergency Response, Relief and Rehabilitation of JAGO NARI

JAGO NARI since March 31, 2020 has responded to the global pandemic Covid-19 and later the second emergency to support the super cyclone AMPHAN since it hit on May 21, 2020. So far JAGO NARI has completed 8 emergency project to fight against Covid-19 and super cyclone AMPHAN and 2 projects are on-going. JAGO NARI is ensuring social distancing during the data collection, material distribution and other activities ensuring proper safety measures for the staffs.
Bangladesh recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19 on March 08, 2020 and subsequently the first official death by the virus was declared by government on March 17, 2020. Since the first case of the infection, the situation has escalated fast, for the worse, with 328 officially confirmed death cases on May 17, 2020 and 22268 people are affected by Covid-19, according to the daily health briefing by the Health and Family Welfare Minister and the IEDCR.
Meanwhile, the whole country is under general holidays and asked to be in their homes and in emergencies, maintain social distancing. But the reality is that people are not maintaining their isolation in their homes to be safe, there is heavy gathering in the markets and this has become the very lucrative source of social contamination and the alarming situation of being affected. People can’t go out for their livelihoods, so running after the very limited relief support and violating all distance which is the breeding place of being contaminated and affected by the Covid-19.
Many people are working abroad from Barguna district and those are coming from middle-east, south-Asian countries, which makes it very alarming for the people and they are becoming very vulnerable to the Corona Virus. Amtoli is the transit point for people movement to other Upazilla and Kalapara, Barguna Sadar and Patharghata are the sea-belt areas. Several business groups, agriculture groups and fishermen groups’ movement become very optimum here and it becomes the breeding place for the Covid-19.
According to ICDER report, old age people are most vulnerable and the lack of awareness common people at village/community level is coming out to the nearest bazar/market very frequently and if this can’t be tackled now, situation will become very severe shortly though the Government has taken initiative for keeping people in their homes and taking support from the law-enforcing agencies including the armed forces but it has not yielded very good fruit in providing result of being at home. And as a result, most affected people are the marginalized and poor farmers, fishermen, persons with disability, elderly people, day labourers, small/ferry business men, floating people, widow, separated women, child headed households are becoming work/jobless and of no income which is leading them to starvation and they even can’t think of the hygiene kits for the protection and here stand our role of helping these very vulnerable groups to support with the hygiene kit and this should follow with food items as they don’t have any food as they don’t have work to earn.
JAGO NARI has worked to support the most vulnerable community i.e. widow, separated women, PWDs, old aged people with no income source, daily laborers for their protection from the Covid-19 with providing hygiene kits so that they can survive from this pandemic and also support to revive from the super cyclone AMPHAN.