Arvind lives with his wife and two small children in Delhi. His eldest child is 3 years old, and he and his wife also a three-month-old baby. Before the lockdown, he drove his autorickshaw. With the lockdown, he had no source of money. He called us and was one of our earliest cases marked urgent….
Category: Workers’ Stories
“We are stuck in Madhya Pradesh with our families due to the lockdown.”
“We are stuck in Madhya Pradesh with our families due to the lockdown. Our employers haven’t compensated us.We don’t have any money. We want to go home. We request the Transport Ministry to help us get back home.” The handwritten letter was sent to the Transport Department. It came from a remote village in Rewa…
“All the others are leaving. I’m left behind because I have no money.”
“All the others are leaving. I’m left behind because I have no money.” The lady told our volunteer covering Mumbai. She had been staying with 27 other migrant workers. They had all decided to go home to Jharkhand, and had found a bus. But the bus driver demanded Rs. 8000 each. This is a huge…
“We didn’t get ration, but did get yelled at.”
“We didn’t get ration, but did get yelled at” Three hours had already been spent waiting for a ration. But now those hours were waisted. The ration would not come, not today. The policeman shouted at him to leave. The policeman told him that he had to wait until he received a phone call before…
Insights from a volunteer working in Mumbai.
Very frankly I’m not in contact with the migrants who are living in the worst conditions. Most of the people I talked to in Dharavi, I talked to 7-8 groups till now, it’s not that they are starving. They are getting cooked food from religious organisations and NGOs. But the people I’m talking to are…