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COVID response

COVID Response

Essential supplies to drivers and families left without work during the 2020 lockdown.

When the first lockdown stopped the city, it stopped the people who drive it first. Auto drivers. School van drivers. Anyone paid by the trip.

On the evening of 11 April 2020 the Ramanthapur Seven Seater Auto Owners Welfare Association telephoned. On 14 April at eleven in the morning, rice, dal, cooking oil, tamarind, salt and chilli powder reached 80 members of the union. Their letter records all of it, signed by three office bearers.

Separately, and with Sevadhan, the community supported private-school van drivers at Adikmet with fifteen days of essentials.

That May, the Rachakonda Police Commissionerate presented TechieRide with its Good Samaritan Award for COVID-19 service.

  • Ramanthapur · Uppal mandal · Ranga Reddy · Telangana
  • Adikmet · Hyderabad · Telangana
Masked volunteers and staff during a COVID-period distribution at Keshav Smarak Junior College

Events

Related events

  • Completed

    Support for private-school van drivers, Adikmet

    Fifteen days of essential supplies for private-school van drivers left without work during the lockdown, delivered jointly with Sevadhan. Reported by ETV Bharat.

    Adikmet · Hyderabad · Telangana

  • Completed

    Essential supplies for 80 auto union members

    The Ramanthapur Seven Seater Auto Owners Welfare Association telephoned on the evening of 11 April 2020. On 14 April, rice, dal, cooking oil, tamarind, salt and chilli powder reached 80 members of the union.

    14 April 2020 · Ramanthapur · Uppal mandal · Ranga Reddy · Telangana

Institutional impact

In their own words

Letters from the institutions this work reached.

Institutional recognition