ACORN International board members, supported by their staff, convened in a first global Zoom call today. ACORN leaders from 15 countries and 20 affiliates joined the call and participated using translators and translation software.

Laxmi Kamble our  frontline field coordinator  for distributing food provisions during covid 19 featured in the Washington Post story on Dharavi.  In One of the World’s Largest Slums, the Fight Against Coronavirus has Turned into a Struggle to Survive.

ACORN organizers distribute food to neighborhood residents

Social distancing is impossible, and life is becoming very hard for the slum’s hundreds of thousands of residents

Photo Gallery: ACORN members in Delhi help transport, prepare, and distribute meals to migrant workers without access to food or government services.

ACORN India members are informal workers, hawkers and vendors, who have to work each day to get shelter and food.