How a Kudumbashree unit in Kerala capital is lending timely succour in the time of pandemic
The Hindu
Jhansi Thomas’ Kudumbashree unit Samjees in Thiruvananthapuram chips in with all the help it can offer for the COVID-affected with a raft of services, including feeding patients
Jhansi Thomas’ five-member Kudumbashree micro-enterprise (ME) unit Samjees supplies tea, breakfast, lunch and dinner to 50 people at the COVID-19 first-line treatment centre (FLTC) in the Pettah Railway Hospital. Samjees, set up five years ago, functions from a rented accommodation at Muttada. The women work in stretches in the kitchen, only two of the five are engaged in cooking at a time. Of course, if the orders are large, say for a large function or event, the rest too chip in. For the Pettah FLTC, the women cook the food and pack the parcels, while two men help with the delivery.
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