Indian Frontliners Helping Amnesty And Coronavirus Lockdown Sufferers

Amnesty was declared for one month from April 1st to 30th for undocumented expats in the country by the state of Kuwait.  Indian nationals who are staying in Kuwait without any valid documents can leave the country without any fine or paying for the air ticket.
 

Indian Embassy authorized 282 volunteers from various Indian Forums.  Under the umbrella of DAR AL SABHA welfare association, Indian Frontliners and other Tamil organisations Kuwait Tamil Drivers mayyam, Tamil Makkal sevai mayyam, Velinaadu vaazh makkal sevai mayyam; Indian Social service; Ma.Ja.Ka; Islamiya Prachaara peravai ; Thaai man kalai iyakka peravai; Misk & Tamilosai   joined hands for this process.

Due to the coronavirus problem and curfew, people could not go out freely, these volunteers took on the risk and visited door to door all around Kuwait to collect the required documents, submitted to embassy and finished the job successfully.

Indian nationals desiring to benefit from the Amnesty were requested to approach the centers at Farwaniya and in Abasiya for the final process. Volunteers guided and helped the Indians to fill the required papers along with the Indian Embassy to formalize the travel needs. This was a great help for many of these Indians as they cannot read/write and also understand the requirements.

Within this period, thousands of  Indians without Passport or Civil ID have taken advantage of this offer.  Majority Indians were sheltered in repatriation centers, and they were provided with free food. All their expenses were being taken care of by the Kuwait Government.

In addition to help the Indians to fly back, Indian Frontliners team Mr. Durai, Ramesh, Alavudeen & Ncm  took care of the tireless-dedicated volunteers by providing them food, snacks, drinks etc.

Recently, the travel of Indians under amnesty started by Kuwait Airways and Jazeera flights to India free of cost. It was delayed because India had to prepare to accept these many people during the coronavirus pandemic and prepare quarantine places.

Another issue was that the preventative measures from the coronavirus had impacted the expats working in Kuwait, many expats lost their jobs and suffered salary cute due to the businesses suffering under the partial curfew. Consequently, people cannot pay their house rents or eat proper food daily.

Many of  our community workers don’t have any savings at hand and it was almost impossible to find food and money. IFL decided to help the needy Indians in Fahaheel, Mangaf, Abu-Halifa, Salmiya ,Hawali and other far areas.

IFL Vice President Mr. P.Senthilkumar immediately formed a team to start this volunteer service. The COVID 19 pandemic has affected all sections of the community and the need of the hour is to come together collectively to identify and address sections which require immediate help to alleviate their suffering.

With the available and mobilised funds from IFL, it started buying groceries and distributing the needed provisions for a month by maintaining social distancing and within the allowable time before the curfew. IFL have collected the needy personnel list in April as many as 1070 Indians.

As the requirements increase for many, under the guidance of the Embassy of India Kuwait  when the  committee ICSG  formed to respond to the basic and essential needs of the Indian Community, IFL joined with them.

After ICSG started making online registration, IFL spot out around 1080 needy people for the food kit to be supplied.

In addition to the ICSG food kits, IFL did its best to supply with the needed provisions for all of one thousand plus people at least one time. Tamil Karpor Kuzhumam, Malabar Gold and few like-minded people also joined with IFL to spare provisions to the needy people.

In addition to this, IFL supported the families of some of the victims of the coronavirus. Also IFL  joined with Mughal Mahal to help the needy project to distribute food boxes all over Kuwait.

IFL not only helped our community in Kuwait  but also in India. It is worth noting that IFL is the first one from Kuwait to send Rs 1,00,000 to PM relief fund.

Our funds have been widely utilized for the poor people through many NGOs in India like Palam, Exnora, World Women Chennai Trust, Annai Trust, Ninalam trust, Head India Kangaroo etc. to supply food, groceries and safety kits.

Another initiative from IFL members was to mobilise from Kuwait, Canada and Qatar almost 4,00,000 INR to 20 blind families in India for their living of 8 months till December-2020.

ICSG appreciates the good work and the efforts of IFL for extending our help to the weaker sections. It was our pleasure to have ICSG on board to work for the collective welfare of our community

There were a lot of thankful messages from many of the people who received food kits help from IFL or ICSG. It was tough to distribute during the curfew and Ramadan hours. IFL thanks Indian Embassy and ICSG for the needed help to protect the fellow Indians.

IFL prays and hopes that the expats in Kuwait will emerge victorious from this coronavirus soon, so that people can resume their work and make their own living.

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