{"id":3490,"date":"2021-06-15T09:49:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T05:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2022-05-06T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T08:30:11","slug":"a-collaborative-response-to-corona-the-auroville-village-action-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/15\/a-collaborative-response-to-corona-the-auroville-village-action-group\/","title":{"rendered":"A Collaborative Response to Corona: The Auroville Village Action Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the entire the COVID-19 pandemic and its lockdowns, different Auroville groups have been working hard to take care of the members of our small community. <a href=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/25\/coronalife-2-0-auroville-in-the-second-wave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Basket delivery, medical care for those in home quarantine, and an extensive track-and-trace system of contacts have kept the rate of infection low.<\/a> But what of the villages surrounding us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Auroville Village Action Group (AVAG) is the biggest Auroville unit with its feet on the ground \u2013 their extensive networks in the villages help them identify the areas and people of concern. We spoke to Anbu, one of the AVAG project directors, to give an update on Auroville\u2019s work to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Collaborative Initiatives to Combat the Second Wave of Covid 19\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KQlmKrcRC20?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Boosting Prevention \u2013 and Immune \u2013 Systems<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>In this second lockdown, we are aware that COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in the villages, yet many cases go unreported as people prefer to stay away from hospitals and quarantine facilities. Anbu from AVAG confirms that the second wave has seen many more infections: \u201cThis year the villages were impacted more. Apart from the economic crisis the health condition was bad for many families. More people are impacted by the virus and there are more deaths.\u201d Social stigma is also getting in the way: \u201cWe also see a tendency for people not to go to the hospital until their condition is critical. Due to social stigma related to the disease, people try to hide the symptoms and pretend to be normal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, AVAG feels much more prepared for the work that needs to be done. \u201cThis year it was an easier task than last year. The base was set already, so we were able to work quite easily using that base. We held meetings even before the lockdown, with our village teams and government representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AVAG supports 20,000 families in 75 communities, a job they can only do because they have extensive networks in the villages \u2013 people from the affected communities helping AVAG in their efforts. Since before the lockdown, AVAG has provided them with educational flyers about prevention, and a set of immune boosters. The boosters are homeopathic medicines, recognised health supplements advised by the Government of India. \u201cThe distribution of the first round of immune boosters and educational flyer was more or less completed before the lockdown.\u201d They are now providing a second dose to each of the 20,000 families. Their women\u2019s enterprise, AVAL, has stitched 5000 safe masks that have been distributed to families with infected members and sanitary workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Anpakkam-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3496\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Anpakkam.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=3496\" class=\"wp-image-3496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Anpakkam-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Anpakkam-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Anpakkam-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Anpakkam-1140x855.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Anpakkam.jpeg 1156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_1455.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3494\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_1455.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=3494\" class=\"wp-image-3494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_1455.jpg 800w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_1455-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_1455-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Appirampattu1-1024x589.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3497\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Appirampattu1.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=3497\" class=\"wp-image-3497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Appirampattu1-1024x589.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Appirampattu1-300x172.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Appirampattu1-768x441.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Appirampattu1.jpeg 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Falling Between the Gaps<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Tamil Nadu government has programs in place to help people deal with the pressures of lockdown, some slip between the gaps \u2013 this is a key area where AVAG steps in. \u201cThe Government is giving a total of 4000 rps [about 50 euros] and a mix of essential items to each family. To access these benefits, each family has to have a ration card from the government to be eligible.\u201d As the government has cancelled these cards for single-person households, not everyone has access: \u201cThere are families who don\u2019t have this card and who are having difficulties, but particularly single women, such as widows, are struggling.\u201d Another group AVAG supports are those families who are sick with, or have lost people to, COVID-19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AVAG knows who has a need in the community, again thanks to their networks in the villages. \u201cWe have a list of people who are really poor, marginalized and vulnerable. It is made with the help of the village teams and the Panchayat secretary. Between them, they know who has the ration cards and what are the economic conditions in each household.\u201d In this way, AVAG can make sure that they are taking care of those who need it most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ezgif-2-c87f4c32eb87-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3505\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ezgif-2-c87f4c32eb87-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=3505\" class=\"wp-image-3505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ezgif-2-c87f4c32eb87-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ezgif-2-c87f4c32eb87-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ezgif-2-c87f4c32eb87-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ezgif-2-c87f4c32eb87-1-1140x855.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ezgif-2-c87f4c32eb87-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_7161_result-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3507\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_7161_result-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/?attachment_id=3507\" class=\"wp-image-3507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_7161_result-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_7161_result-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_7161_result-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_7161_result-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_7161_result-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_7161_result-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_7161_result-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_7161_result-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_7161_result-80x80.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Divine Energy<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>AVAG is working closely in affected villages, but has managed to continue work without too many of their staff falling ill. \u201cThree of our team members also got infected, but they recovered.\u201d Anbu thinks that it\u2019s because they are continuously giving immune boosters in the office, but also because their work simply needs to continue: \u201cI think this is the protection we got from the Divine Energy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AVAG is now fundraising for next steps. They want to continue distributing proper masks, immune boosters, and information on prevention and vaccination, while supporting the marginalised. They need 41,95,000 rps [about 50.000 euros] to do this work. \u201cWe have raised more or less 50% of our requirement. If we are successful, we will execute all the activities. If we don\u2019t succeed, we decide on priorities with village teams and AVAG together.\u201d Hopefully, these community-based efforts will help India towards a more manageable reality of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>For a full breakdown of AVAG\u2019s work and fundraising needs, see <a href=\"https:\/\/villageaction.in\/pages\/covidresponse\/covidresponse.html\">their COVID-19 campaign website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to contribute to AVAG\u2019s work, see the<a href=\"https:\/\/donations.auroville.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> information on how to donate here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AVAG\u2019s official report on their COVID-19 response can be found here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021.-MAY-COVID19-Revised-update.pdf\">AVAG \u2013 COVID-19 Response 2021 June<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/adventure.auroville.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021.-MAY-COVID19-Revised-update.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AVAG is the biggest Auroville unit for social development in the bioregion. 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