A 100-bed Covid Care Centre is running in Mota Fofaliya village in Shinor taluka of Vadodara district with the backing of the government and Shaktikrupa Charitable Trust. The center is also providing employment to 54 women of Shakti, Savita, and Sharda Sakhi Mandal, earning 300 to 400 a day.
Ashokbhai Patel, Director, Shakti Kripa Charitable Trust, said that the school hostel of the institute is closed in Corona. These women of Sakhi Mandal were working in the hostel and due to closure, they are unemployed.
The Trust’s US-based donor Kiranbhai Patel and Trustee Jitubhai Patel have taken care of these women and put forward the idea of employing women in the 100-bed Covid Care Center in the village.
The care center is treating patients from the surrounding villages with common symptoms of covid. Under Mission Mangalam Yojana, these women have been assigned to work as per the prescribed covid protocol. The same amount of money is deposited in the bank by the organization against what these women save from their daily earnings.
Rashmi Patel of Sakhi Mandal said that there are 54 women in their Sakhi Mandal and the employment was halted when the institute’s school closed due to Corona. But with the launch of the Covid Care Center in the hostel by the organization, their employment has resumed. The women of Sakhi Mandal are working in the kitchen, Covid Care Centre as well as in the garden. They get Rs.400 to 500 daily, so that even in the difficult times of Corona, they can support their families.
Ashokbhai said that out of this savings, the amount is given to the members of Sakhi Mandal when needed. He added that these rural women take care of proper hygiene during the preparation of the meal and follow the prescribed protocol in delivering packed food for the patients.
Meals are delivered to the table outside the patient’s room in disposable packing to prevent these women from becoming infected with the corona infection. For this, the women have been trained to pack the food items by the organization. They also wear PPE kits.
