65 Engaging women from the communities through the Sai Livelihood Development Program During the year we found ways to engage women from the communities and contribute meaningfully to the fight against COVID. The livelihood center in Tumkunta engaged women in mask-making orders between June and September of 2020. This initiative provided women trainees an opportunity to generate income for themselves. Over the course of four months, 25 women produced over 19,000 masks for the Shamirpet Mandal office, which generated a total earning of over Rs. 57,000 for the women. Looking forward with the Sai Champions ‘Bridge the Gap’ program and Mental HealthCare Camps In the reporting year, many of our partner schools had to shut down due to the COVID 19 pandemic restrictions. This resulted in children from the government-run school systems, having to stay at home with little to no access to digital learning resources. To address this challenge and the issue of the learning loss that these children are facing, we introduced the Sai Champions ‘Bridge the Gap program’. The program also aims to address the deeper impacts of the pandemic on children’s emotional and social well-being. This program was proposed earlier this year and kick-started in the middle of the year. Sai has partnered with Adhyayan Foundation in helping design and support the overall running of the program. The COVID-19 pandemic has also had a significant impact on how we interact with others, our work, and almost every other aspect of our lives. Added to the fear of contracting the virus, people are also faced with challenging new realities of social distancing, working from home, unemployment, the remote schooling of children, and limited physical contact with loved ones and friends. This can have a significant impact on the mental well-being of people. Mental health needs the same attention and support as one would give to any physical health condition and therefore, easy access to this care is important. In the pursuit to make it better together, Sai Life Sciences has entered into a partnership with Roshni Trust to support free weekly mental health camps in the coming year, in two centers in Hyderabad- the Roshni Counselling Center(RCC) and another at Ramakrishna Math.
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