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Mumbai: 'Christmas Gift' For 2,000 Sanitation Workers In Dharavi

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently tied up with the Clean-Up Foundation and vaccinated nearly 2,000 garbage collectors in Dharavi amid rising cases of coronavirus and its new variant Omicron.

Mumbai: 'Christmas Gift' For 2,000 Sanitation Workers In Dharavi
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently tied up with the Clean-Up Foundation and vaccinated nearly 2,000 garbage collectors in Dharavi amid rising cases of coronavirus and its new variant Omicron.

The BMC provided a free COVID-19 vaccination camp for solid waste workers and rag pickers in Dharavi on Friday, December 24, and Saturday, December 25.

Calling the initiative a "Christmas gift" for the residents of Dharavi, the NGO gave a free ration (food grains) kit along with a sanitary kit of soap, sanitiser and masks to those got vaccinated at the camp.

This was also done to ensure maximum participation from the rag-pickers and garbage collectors in the camp. Senior BMC officials with their team of doctors and health workers were present at the occasion.

The organisation’s activities are targeted at improving and enhancing the hygiene, safety, and sanitation of garbage collectors and rag pickers who are living in appalling conditions.

Commenting on this initiative, Sanjana Runwal, Founder, Clean-Up Foundation, said, “It is our endeavor to give the kind of support to the waste pickers and rag pickers which they do not get easily, so we are running this free vaccination campaign in collaboration with MCGM."

Clean Up Foundation’s activities include providing clean drinking water facilities, safety gear, healthy meals, education finance for children of garbage workers, providing medical insurance, free COVID-19 vaccination and other similar activities.

Recently, the NGO was felicitated with a Certificate of appreciation by the Minister of Housing and Governor of Maharashtra, for exemplary social work.

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