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We are passing through an unexpected and unprecedented healthcare
situation in the wake of the pandemic, the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).
Recognizing the challenges due to this crisis situation, the Sehgal Foundation
team is committed to spreading awareness and ensuring safety of our employees,
community, and other partners and associates. We wish for you and your family
to remain safe during this time.
At Sehgal Foundation, we are taking preventive measures to mitigate the
risk of employee exposure while adhering the 21-day national lockdown. Our
office spaces are being sanitized on a regular basis and office premises
fumigated. All our employees are working from home in coordination with their
managers/supervisors through modern technical methods. These are tough times that
require us to keep our heads above water. We firmly believe that together we
shall overcome this situation and the crisis shall leave us with greater learning and
fortitude. Until then, let’s remain focused on our tasks at hand and continue
monitoring the health and safety of our families, teams, and near ones.
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Village communities need our help during this unprecedented time! Impact of COVID-19 and lockdown is felt most severely amongst those who do not have access to the basics such as clean potable water, food and more, in particular information about the government relief programs. |
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Latest at Sehgal Foundation |
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Transform Lives one school at a time Sehgal Foundation's COO, Anjali Makhija, and Pooja O. Murada, director, Communications, have recently represented the foundation’s work, including our schools centric work under the program Transform Lives one school at a time to donors in the US. Summarizing the wonderful experience, Anjali shares, "It was a great opportunity to represent our work in various universities: St. Catherine and Iowa, and donor events in Des Moines, Minnesota, and Florida. These engagements enabled us to take our work to the global platform and to bring greetings from rural communities to the US."
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Radio campaigns
Sehgal Foundation's community radio, Alfaz-e-Mewat, in Nuh district of Haryana, is playing an instrumental role in getting messages from the Health Department to the communities through radio. 21 Din 21 Baatein (21 days 21 messages) A radio campaign to promote positivity and open up ourselves in the times of lockdown. Through the daily show, we bring to our listeners a theme-based poem along with a psychologist, Mr. Satish Kaushik, Rajbala Foundation, who shares his expert advice to make the most of these 21 days and not get bogged down. Mr. Kaushik does a live phone-in program on mental health titled Uljhan every week.
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Information sharing with community groups
Sehgal Foundation printed the COVID-19 posters released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for display at offices at regional locations, apart from sharing the information over various Whatsapp groups and through our IVR-based toll free helpline called the Citizen Information and Support Center. Additionally, the team came up with a pictorial presentation for the do's and don'ts to inform staff through digital media. |
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Conference Presentation Sehgal Foundation's director, Development Research and Policy Initiatives, Ms. Niti Saxena, represented the foundation during a roundtable meeting on “Holistic Mining Policy for India” organized by the Foundation of Resource Convergence and held on February 20, 2020. She shared her views on the impact of mining activities in rural areas of our country.
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The entire Sehgal Foundation family wishes for your safety! Remember, Together We Can . . . |
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Editorial Team: Arti Manchanda Grover, Marly Cornell, Pooja O. Murada Contributors: Niti Saxena, Jincy Chacko Photo credits: Sehgal Foundation staff
Design and Production: Communications team
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