The COVID – 19 pandemic has had a monstrous effect not just on the physical and mental wellbeing of individuals yet additionally on the monetary and social prosperity too. Among them, poor people and the minimized, particularly the ladies and young ladies, needed to confront the brunt of the lockdown. 50-year-old Savitri Devi lost her work, and her little reserve funds, gazing at hunger in the eye.

The landless widow from Daringbadi town of Baliguda locale of Odisha is an individual from ‘Saraswati Devi’ Self Help Group under Special Millet programme in tribal areas.. Her better half passed on when she was 41 and she had a choice to remarry with her then 9-year-old child, yet she chose something else.

Her significant other was a day by day bet and after his demise, she thought that it was hard to deal with her home and her child. She began functioning as an agrarian worker in her town. In spite of the fact that the pay was insufficient for a respectable life, yet she was resolved to give a well-rounded schooling to her child. Life had different plans, and her now 18-year-old child couldn’t finish his examinations and fills in as an every day bet as well.

Farming work was permitted during lockdown with exacting insurances and the majority of the transient laborers were back home from the urban areas. The arrival of the transient specialists caused an emergency in horticultural work. The majority of the transient laborers began chipping away at their own in their fields to set aside cash. So Savitri Devi was left without work and her little saving of INR 3,000 was spent on every day fundamental necessities.

“During the lockdown, we couldn’t accepting vegetables and oil, so we ate bubbled rice a couple of times. Each individual from the SHG bunch was in incredible torment, individuals lost their types of revenue and we were among them, it was hard to live. Meanwhile, I got some assistance from the public authority specialists. Be that as it may, when I got the apportion pack from Jagruti Kandhamal. it was an extraordinary alleviation for me and my child”, Savitri said.

As per her, the apportion was sufficient to take care of two individuals for over a month, and she was certain that in that period she will actually want to begin work. Also, luckily, that is by and large what occurred. As the lockdown facilitated, she got work inside the month.

She at that point grins and expectations for a more splendid tomorrow.