The Centre for Advocacy and Research (CFAR) was founded in January 1988 and has been involved in providing humanitarian relief support to most marginal communities during the COVID 19 pandemic .The beneficiaries of the relief include socially, occupationally and spatially vulnerable groups of women, men, transgender and children living in low-income habitats and informal settlements and shelter homes and orphanages supporting migrants, children of key population groups and homeless persons.Dry ration and grocery kits, hygiene and dignity kits, supplementary nutrition for 0–6-year-old children, cooked food, financial assistance. We also procured and provided assistive aids, tarpaulin sheets, weighing scale and musical instruments to address needs of shelter, mobility and livelihood for persons living with disabilities. Additionally, we facilitated marginal and occupationally vulnerable groups for COVID vaccination across all cities to ensure safety and protection from the pandemic

Relief Status-12 States - 27 cities/districts 

Dry Ration Kits-67,964 Kits

Supplementary Nutrition Kits for Pregnant women- 1000 Kits

Supplementary Nutrition Kits for Children- 16610 Kits

Cooked Food-16213 persons

COVID Financial Assistance-10866 persons

Assistive Aids, Shelter and Livelihood Support for Persons Living with Disability-163 persons

Hygiene Products-13845

Intervention:   142 districts and 30 cities in the states of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal

Core areas of work social inclusion of marginal communities, water, sanitation and hygiene, humanitarian relief response, gender and women’s empowerment, health care and livelihood support