Shell India Battles COVID-19 Outbreak

Understanding that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected each one of us in a different way, Shell India reached out to various groups like frontline workers, migrants, and daily wage earners to extend its support during the tough times. To support the nation in this unprecedented time, Shell India has undertaken the following listed initiatives to power our nation through these extraordinary times.

COMMUNITY EFFORTS

• Shell India is reaching out to more than 126,000 people with more than 35,000 relief kits and over 14,800 meals
• Grocery kits are being distributed among vulnerable communities/daily wage workers around Shell’s retail sites in 9 cities and 6 towns. Through this activity, Shell has so far touched almost 55,000 lives
• Shell India’s staff has been working closely with the local authorities since April 2020 to procure, package and distribute 16,000 grocery kits among vulnerable communities including migrant workers and daily wage workers around their fuel retail sites. Further information on this can be found at company’s Care for Community page.
• 2,600 frontline workers (doctors, nurses, ward boys, paramedics etc.) were offered complimentary beverages as a part of Shell’s Healthcare Heroes campaign across 62 sites
• As a token of appreciation to health professionals and truck drivers, Shell India, in partnership with social enterprise Vision Spring, has distributed care packages with food and hygiene essentials to 12,000 ambulance drivers, truckers and allied transport staff stranded at the borders, as well as mechanics, whose income has been affected, across 15 cities
• 3000 hygiene kits have been distributed to Uber Medic/Essential drivers who are providing services to the community during these difficult times
• The company provided 14800 meals through community kitchens and distribution of food packet
• Shell has provided grocery items and hygiene kits to about 800 families around its facility in Taloja, Maharashtra, and 600 families of fence line villages around its technology center in Bengaluru
• 2,575 vulnerable families (Halpati fishermen & BPL) in Hazira gas fence villages (in Gujarat) are being provided with grocery kits
• The community health clinic set up by Shell in Hazira, is providing free health check-ups to all its patients. Till 22nd April, 750 patients from economically weaker sections have been treated by Hazira Medical facility free of cost during the lockdown period. Shell India teams across several other cities and towns are in consultation with local authorities to identify the people who need this help the most.
• Essential groceries have also been provided to community kitchens in two locations of Surat city (In Gujarat) for providing daily food to migrant labours & poor families for their survival & wellbeing