Rice and lentils, soybean oil, flour, salt, sugar, onions and potatoes. These are some of the basic ingredients that allow mothers and grandmothers to prepare simple but nutritious meals for members of their households. Due to your compassionate support, families and children will not go hungry. As camp residents experience the ongoing adverse effects of the pandemic, delivering these staples will, without a doubt, protect their health and well-being.
The communities we serve are some of the poorest and most disadvantaged in the world today where the typical daily wage is about $1 for those who were fortunate enough to find work as day laborers in the pre-Covid-19 world. However, most earners lost this meager subsistence as the economic impacts of this global crisis were felt most acutely, as they typically are, by the poorest among us. As the rest of the world begins to recuperate, camp families continue to struggle and are expected to be among the last to recover from the effects of the pandemic.
As resources to buy food for their families slipped through their fingers, adults and children felt a growing sense of despair along with the physical hunger they experienced. Your support for OBAT food distribution continues to be vital for proper access to nutrition, maintaining health, and restoring hope among camp residents.
In the cities of Dhaka and Rangpur, your support made it possible to distribute food packages to 425 people consisting of basic staples to support nutrition and health of those hit the hardest in this crisis.