The pandemic has disrupted the world since 2020 as Covid continues to ravage life and take away loved ones from their families.

It has also left people in utter grief and disappointment. And children are the worst affected. Now, due to the pandemic, there is a rise in the number of orphans across the country.

Amid all this grief, a social worker from Dehradun has decided to adopt 100 kids who have been orphaned during the pandemic. 

Jai Sharma, founder of the NGO JOY (Just Open Yourself) has started the adoption campaign and has adopted around 20 kids till now.

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Taking to Facebook he said, “When the second wave of COVID-19 started, we encountered five such families in the initial two weeks where both the parents had died, and the child/children were left alone at home. A few of these children were of classes 4th-5th age group, one was in 12th, and the rest were small in age. At that moment, it hit our mind that this unfortunate scenario is inevitable, and we were to come across more such cases as the pandemic rose." 

The post further said, “Within a week, we will be completing our target of adopting 50 children, followed by 100 children eventually. I, Jai Sharma from JOY, am there to support these children by any means possible, till the time they become self-sufficient!"

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The team is now constantly reaching out to various villages and is getting in touch with them for helping out orphans and adopting them. 

Not only this, Sharma’s NGO JOY has been actively working to provide the necessary support needed to the patients of COVID-19. They have been providing free 24×7 oxygen cylinders with no additional charges. 

The team also distributed COVID medical kits, sanitization kits along with other medical equipment to those in need, added the Facebook post.

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