 Namaste! My name is Godavari. I am Secretary of the Sakhi Federation in Maharashtra, India and a member of the Viro Commission. Before women were organised, they never stepped out of their homes. After the 1993 Latur earthquake, Swam Sikshan Prayog organised grassroots women into SHGs and supported them to come forward as leaders who participated in community development. The Marathvada region of Maharashtra is susceptible to recurring droughts due to climate change. Drought has severely affected the food, nutrition and livelihood security of communities. To deal with this, grassroots women leaders developed and adopted the one-acre organic farming model in which they diversified into 25 varieties of food grains and vegetables in their farms and kitchen gardens. This is ensuring food and nutrition security for women, their families and communities. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, women leaders organised a special Sakhi Task Force. The task force surveyed returning migrants who were particularly vulnerable to assess their situation with regard to food, safe water and sanitation and basic health and hygiene in institutional quarantine. And we provided information and counseled those in distress. Migrant workers who returned from cities such as Pune and Mumbai had lost their jobs and didn't have enough food to eat. Women leaders worked with these migrants to understand their skills and then set out to match their skills with work opportunities. In Neelaygaon village, the women's groups gave loans from their group savings to migrant workers to start small businesses such as photocopying shops and snack shops. Our women leaders worked in partnership with the local government to provide information to communities, particularly migrant workers regarding government programs and entitlements such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Program, where people can be employed in farming and water conservation, pond desilting and other works. Also, our women explained the procedures and facilitated access to free rations under the public distribution system for families in partnership with the local authorities. Our federations women gave rupees 25 lakhs loans to their members for farming and other allied businesses, which had local marketing opportunities. We partnered with the local government at village, block and district levels to advocate and jointly plan to improve access to government programs for communities affected by the COVID crisis. Our message is that being organized, having a strong grassroots network and our robust partnerships with the local government allowed us to deal with the COVID-19 crisis and help our communities and the migrant workers. And my request to the government is to come up with some measures and solutions, including enterprise opportunities for the migrants. Thank you.