15/05/2020
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In this time of Coronavirus and the consequent lockdown, please join us in helping the needy folk musicians of Rajasthan get through challenges unlike ones they have faced before.
Remote communities that are already poor, fragile, and marginalised are being impacted on an unprecedented scale. Their situation is growing increasingly desperate by the day. We must respond now.
Jodhpur RIFF, in partnership with the Mehrangarh Museum Trust, and the World Sacred Spirit Festival, has launched the Coronavirus Relief Project. We are identifying families and villages that are the neediest and have put in place the mechanisms to ensure that they receive food in the coming weeks, regularly.
Working together with local artists and volunteers in each village, we are providing emergency food packs which are purchased locally. Each pack costs Rs. 750 (approximately UK ยฃ7.80), and will last an average family of 6 for one week.
In our first phase, we have provided food packs to more than 300 families in 7 villages in Jaisalmer, Barmer and Jodhpur districts. In our second phase, we have already reached 10 villages and 130 families and are reaching out to more families.
We are committed to providing packs regularly, until the current lockdown is relaxed. In addition, we will meet the necessary medical expenses for our senior-most musicians, our living legends and those who need urgent medical treatment.
To support us and to learn more about Jodhpur RIFFโs Coronavirus Relief Project, visit our website www.jodhpurriff.org
You can also like our Facebook/Instagram page and send us a message or email us at: info@jodhpurriff.org
On behalf of the folk musiciansโ communities of Rajasthan, with whom we work, and the entire Jodhpur RIFF team, thank you.
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