Preparedness

At a time when there is overwhelming threat and fears, Bapu Trust teams have been working continuously, despite the burnout, stress, losses of family members and friends, and various other situations of adversity.
Bapu Trust received a recognition as “essential service” from the authorities, making us frontline workers providing specific psychosocial services to the urban poor.
Early on, BT developed a continuous feedback loop with donors, sponsors and support agencies, addressing their concerns about our safety as well as our work in times of COVID and its funding impact.
BT created new systems of due diligence, compliance for donations in kind, relief measures such as grains, clothes and other items, and suitable record keeping for gathering BT COVID response
A new HBW policy, for all staff, during COVID was made, and continuous measures were taken to cover for staff safety.
BT continued to strengthen the psychosocial support and crisis response systems already practiced, and provided those during lockdown and corona times.
The number of partnerships for referral during these times multiplied many fold, with relentless efforts by BT teams to reach out unconditionally to all kinds of diverse support agencies, individuals and government systems, to help people in need.
For the first time, BT moved people in severe health crisis to private care as a life saving measure, as in the initial stages of Stage II corona, public health systems were not equipped. BT continues to struggle finding the resources for emergency private care for corona affected persons in our communities.