Weaker section especially daily wage labour community were shocked and facing problem with livelihood security during and after Nationwide lockdown due to Corona Pandemic. Normally daily wage laborers would take wages in advance and repay their old debts in their villages. They will carry money which will cater maximum 04 to 05 days of their expenditure. During lockdown and post lockdown these families are not getting loan from any sources and started selling their life saving assets and gold ornaments. They are in the position of not getting any hand loan.

In post lockdown period few small entrepreneurs and daily wage workers especially women were struggling hard to repay loan and maintain their family expenditure and cost of education to the children. With the support of APPI, EdelGive Foundation amd Mitri Foundation, we have conducted several humanitarians supports to the vulnerable community and Covid affected families; right from providing immediate relief like providing dry ration kits to provide preservative fish boxes, tailoring machines to sustain and support the livelihood. We have covered 7500 families under dry ration kits and other livelihood support.

Food Kit distribution

Education and Employment support

We, MANUVIKASA have distributed scholarship to 44 poor meritorious students especially children of auto drivers and SHG members who are in financial need for their education. We have covered Sirsi, Siddapur, Mundgod, Ankola area beneficiaries. This support is given to the poor students to continue further education without drop out from the schooling.

With aiming to provide immediate employment to reverse migrants to villages and unemployed laborers in villages, we have facilitated and supported community members to get daily wages under Mahatma Gandhi Employment Guarantee Act later renamed as the "Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act" or MGNREGA, is an Indian labor law and social security measure that aims to guarantee the 'right to work'. Manuvikasa has put best effort to give the knowledge and benefits of this scheme to labor class population. Every day each labor will get Rs. 285 wage through MGNREGA and labor community may work for village development or their individual infrastructure. Around 1003 members have got 52550 man-days employment opportunities

Getting employment under MGNREGA is not so easy to the common labor and he need to get job card, he should join in a working labor group and he need to link his bank details to the job card along with other KYC details. Few middlemen will cheat the labor in process of involving in labor work and getting measurement of his work and getting payment.

Government merely provide employment and not providing implements to work for the labor community. Most of the labor community have scarcity of sharp and proper implement to work in MGNREGA working sites and using old implements and putting more effort and time to reach required work measurement. MANUVIKASA identified this gap and provided implements like baskets, hoe and pickaxe.

Implement Distribution to MGNREGA daily wage workers

Supporting fisher women and small farmers growing vegetables

During and post covid lockdown fisher women and vegetable growers faces the problem of marketing their produce and preservation of left-over products after sale. Vegetable and fish sellers were required to sell the produce within timeline and government indicated routes. MANUVIKASA has helped the women and provided 616 fish box and distributed to fisher women to help them. It helped them to store fishes for long time in fish boxes and gained long-term selling capacity. We have purchased a pickup goods vehicle to support farmers producers Organization members to sale their products to market.

Fish box distribution to fisher women

Transportation of agriculture produce to the processing facility/marketing facility forms a major part in harvest and post-harvest management of any agriculture/horticulture produce. The farmers in the district are mostly small/marginal farmers with very small landholding and small volume of produce, their income levels do not permit them to access own system of transportation and invariably makes them depend on the private means of transport systems to manage their produce.

On the other hand, timely transportation of the produce is very important as the harvested produce is either perishable or the farmer must suffer weight loss of the produce with delay in transportation; this situation of the farmer is often exploited by the private transport players who levy high transportation charges which ultimately results in increased cost of production and loss of margin to the farmer.

We have purchased Mahindra Bolero goods vehicle to sell and transport our Farmers Producer Organizations’ products and the products prepared by our Self-Help Group members. We have already promoted 3 producer organizations with the support of EdelGive Foundation.

Manuvikasa promoted one vegetable FPO in Gokarna of Uttara Kannada District. Manuvikasa has found and realized that vegetable growers need seeds tray, we purchased and distributed to 3000 seed trays to 300 vegetable growers. Seeds trays are easy to carry and can be transported from one place to another without harming the plants. Planting can be started any time of the year by sowing seeds in seedling tray. Seeds and seedlings are protected from harsh weather condition. Now vegetable growers are very happy, and we have got very good feedback from the beneficiaries.

We have procured and given fabric to the SHG women who trained in stitching and they have earned more than Rs. 500 per day through stitching and marketing of masks. This fabric amount was rotating and left-over masks after marketing has been freely distributed to poor villagers, health workers and training participants. Total 80 women got employment in this business activity for around 03 months.

In Kunaji of Siddapur, one MGNREGA women worker has lost her life due to illness. Manuvikasa has extended the financial help of Rs.10,000 to her family for the irreplaceable loss.

Online education support to semi orphan students and other livelihood support to women

At the time of covid, students are not attending regular classes. Alternative classes or online classes are going on. It needs mobiles. Some parents are not able to purchase mobiles to their children. Manuvikasa found these students and purchased new mobiles and handover to that students, Rs 33000 worth of mobile purchased and distributed to 04 students.

Education Support

We have helped 20 women with economic difficulties to lead the life especially widows, divorcees whose family is suffered from illness of bread earners through providing stitching machines.

We have distributed chicks to SHG members to encourage poultry activity during critical time. Manuvikasa distributed 2000 chicks to 81 women members of Sirsi, Siddapur, Mundgod, Yallapur Blocks. We have given fast growing backyard poultry chicks.