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00:02 - Hi, I'm Anand from Kalab Trust,
00:07 and I'm gonna tell you what we did
00:09 during the COVID pandemic to help the communities
00:12 in the Upper Thones Valley, Uttarakhand.
00:15 We did two things.
00:16 Because of economic devastation,
00:18 we knew that nutritional security here will be affected.
00:21 So our primary beneficiaries whom we support
00:24 through our projects are women and children,
00:26 so we wanted to protect their nutritional security.
00:29 So we distributed 1,000 seed packets
00:32 containing a variety of seeds of nutritional vegetables
00:37 to families over here that they can plant in their fields
00:40 and grow over the summer.
00:42 The families grew these seeds and it helped them,
00:45 you know, get through a hard summer
00:48 when they did not have money to buy vegetables.
00:50 Livestock rearing, goats and sheep,
00:53 is the primary occupation over here.
00:56 We knew that this also would be impacted
00:58 because people would not be able to invest
01:01 in taking care of their animals
01:02 because of the economic devastation.
01:04 So we distributed veterinary kits
01:08 to treat preventable diseases in 10,000 animals over here.
01:13 Our kit was designed in such a way
01:15 that it would save at least three to four animals
01:18 that would die of preventable diseases.
01:20 So that would lead to an indirect benefit
01:23 of about at least 20 to 25,000 rupees per family
01:27 by saving three or four animals.
01:29 (upbeat music)
01:32 [Music]
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