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With the rising cases of COVID-19 positive cases in India with each passing day, India has now become the third worst-affected country in the world. This has affected the Asha slum communities as well wherein there have been multiple positive cases recently. Asha continues to provide safety guidelines and relief materials to slum dwellers. India…

The pandemic has brought along with it the increase in poverty, especially in the slums where most families are either living on one meal a day or going to bed on hungry stomachs. Amongst them, it has been the women who are facing the highest adverse effects and becoming severely underweight in Asha slums. COVID-19…

COVID-19 has had lasting after-effects on the poorest across the world, especially among the slums where every day is a fight for survival. The Asha slums have witnessed a high increase in malnutrition children which has been a direct repercussion of the national lockdown for two and a half months. The effect of the COVID-19…

The after-effects of the lockdown have resulted in not just the malnourishment of young children, this pandemic has created a mass of severely malnourished women in the slums as well. To combat this issue, Asha has launched a ‘Malnutrition Clinic’ for Women in the slums belonging to the age group of 15-49 years. COVID-19 is…