COVID-19: 600 RSS volunteers serving needy in 11 districts
   Date :04-Apr-2020

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Staff Reporter :
 
Under Youth for Sewa mission 55 young workers are available on call by senior citizens 
 
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) volunteers, about 600 in number, are working to serve the needy in 11 districts of Vidarbha. Eight to ten volunteers work for about five hours daily at about 35 places as their ‘Sewa’ responsibility towards the society. The services are being rendered during the lockdown, due to outbreak of coronavirus.
 
The RSS volunteers have been engaged in serving the senior citizens in Nagpur Mahanagar. Under Youth for Sewa mission 55 young workers are available on call by senior citizens. They help in providing gas cylinders, medicines, vegetables, taking them to hospitals (if needed). So far, 200 seniors have been served by these volunteers. Similarly, over 500 families of seniors, widows, labourer and those without ration cards are being provided essential kitchen items. In entire Maharashtra 45 MBBS doctors are serving the needy through MBBS Help Line. Moreover, 130 volunteers have donated blood to meet the requirements of blood in hospitals. About 2,500 masks have been distributed so far.
 
AKOLA: In Akola services are being extended through Adarsha Sanskar Mandal. Team and snacks are being provided to those working during the lockdown. Kits of foodgrain and other essential items are being provided to 150 trainees from Kerala, held up in Akola. The nomadic or migratory communities are being helped by the RSS volunteers. Help Line for those in need is available in the district. KHAMGAON: Four persons prepare tiffins daily to serve about 300 persons everyday. AMRAVATI: The needy have been given Help Line numbers.
 
Majority of those being served in Amravati are from Pardhi community. Help of a team of doctors is also extended to them. WARDHA: Kits of foodgrains and other essential items are being distributed to needy. YAVATMAL: The volunteers have been providing food items, cooked food, team, snacks to the needy in Yavatmal. PUSAD: About 500 persons who were attending training programmes in connection with their jobs and held up in Pusad, are being helped in co-ordination with the government machinery. WADI, BUTIBORI: Truck drivers held up in Wadi and Butibori and the families in need are being provided tea, snacks and foodgrains. The volunteers are also providing rice and helping the tribals in getting medical services in Brahmapuri and Gadchiroli, informs a press note issued here. So far about 10,000 families have been helped by these RSS volunteers.