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Initially, COVID-19 struck in India’s major cities, where poor people crowd together in slums. When the government issued a nationwide lockdown in March, millions of migrant workers were stranded and returned to their villages on foot, taking the illness to rural areas.


Before the pandemic hit, India was widely known to have a badly underfunded healthcare system. With COVID-19 spreading quickly in communities, overwhelmed hospitals turned away critical patients due to a lack of beds, ventilators and medical supplies.


The work to feed the poor and forgotten in India will be an ongoing outreach for months.


It has been India’s poor who live hand to mouth that have been hit the hardest. Millions of jobs have been lost. People are living in fear. City-wide lockdowns are called as hot spots arise. With no way to earn money, people can’t afford food. One pastor in Madurai told us his newspaper reported in 2 months nearly 900 people had died of hunger. And there is no government welfare system to step in to aid the sick and hungry.


Our WME National Director for India says our Native Missionaries are tirelessly reaching out to needy and suffering people. This includes multiple distributions of food and medical supplies. They are pleading with us to send support for those in great hardship, and they ask us to pray for their country.


These food packets have the potential to end suffering and save lives while opening the door for us to share the Gospel.


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