More than 4 million people are employed as #domestic #helpers according to official statistics, often for very little money, in middle-class and affluent Indian homes. Unofficial estimates put that number at a whopping 50 million.

Two-thirds of these workers are women. Extreme poverty compels unskilled slum-dwellers and rural poor to seek employment as domestic help as a way of earning a living and for the middle-class, it provides cheap labour that keeps their homes running smoothly.

But during the pandemic, millions of middle-class homes have had to manage without their maids, cooks, nannies, nurses, drivers and gardeners as India imposed a strict nationwide lockdown to arrest the spread of the coronavirus. So many of those household workers lost the only source of income and were in the moment of distress.

Humans For Humanity from the begining of the pandemic has been identifying such women/families. They have been regularly supported with ration, sanitary pads, hygiene kits, basic medical support & consultations with doctors. Sharing pictures of one of the distribution that took place yesterday, where over 100 families were distributed ration & sanitary pads.
#househelp #domestichelp