Thread by @PARInetwork

THREAD: Step in Beating #COVID19 is to address the hunger & starvation it has entailed. Our reporters have travelled across the country to find stories of people struggling for food. Help us catch the attention of respective governments by sharing these stories👇#IndiaStarving

1/ "If we don’t get rations, should we hang ourselves?”
The promise of free rations does not assure food on the table during the Covid-19 lockdown for domestic workers and municipal staff, many of them migrants, living in Pune's Kothrud neighbourhood.
ruralindiaonline.org/articles/hunge…

2/ “Many are without food for a week now. The authorities do not even allow the vegetable lorries to come from outside. Some people do not even have water in their house"
ruralindiaonline.org/articles/washi…

3/ "When there is no food, people will come on the streets."
The Covid-19 lockdown has left many daily wage workers in Bengaluru without an income or fall-back options.
ruralindiaonline.org/articles/some-…

4/ “I have a ration card, but got nothing for this month. The grocery shop owner says he is unaware of when he will receive any stock. Many are struggling to have a single meal per day."
The lockdown has severely hit barbers- they rely on daily earnings.
ruralindiaonline.org/articles/barbe…

5/ ‘Soaps won’t save us if we die of hunger first'
Adivasi families of Kavatepada in Palghar district survive on daily wage labour at construction sites. That work has stopped with the Covid-19 lockdown, and they are fast running out of money and rations
ruralindiaonline.org/articles/soaps…

6/ Some Phanse Pardhi Adivasis in rural Maharashtra, especially older ones in their late 70s, depend on begging to be able to eat at all. What happens now, when they cannot enter the villages that feed them?

ruralindiaonline.org/articles/pardh…

7/ "If we cannot reach home, what will we eat? We received a phone call from our village: ‘If you don’t come back now, then stay out for two years’.”
Migrant brick kiln workers in #Palghar are still stranded away from home, and fast running out of food.

ruralindiaonline.org/articles/and-m…

8/ "The doctor says I should consume fruits and milk. Now tell me, how can I get all that?If they allowed me to go to the river, I could also ride a boat & feed my children & myself," says Sushma Devi who is recently widowed & pregnant.
ruralindiaonline.org/articles/even-…

9/ Craftspeople all over the country have been hit hard by the Covid-19 lockdown. Many are taking loans from their employers of Rs. 2,000-3,000 for food, and wondering how to avoid paying black market rates for atta, dal and aalu.
ruralindiaonline.org/articles/locki…

10/ With the COVID-19 driven lockdown, Chenakonda Balasami and other pastoralists in Telangana, on the road for months, are finding it difficult to access food and new grazing grounds – or return to their villages.
ruralindiaonline.org/articles/where…