In consequence of the negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic on people’s livelihoods, during the cold and windy periods of the winter the underprivileged faced immense difficulties. In order to provide these people in need with essential supplies, Palpung Munishasan Dharma Chakra Sangh teamed up with the Taiwanese compassionate relief NGO Tzu Chi Foundation and organized a relief effort in the period between December 29, 2020 and January 25, 2021. With the support of local branches of the Indian central government, extensive social service activities were carried out, like a timely rain during a drought, by providing one month of food supplies to five hundred households in need in Himachal Pradesh, over three thousand destitute households in different areas of Bihar, along with supplies for over twenty thousand people residing at impoverished schools, nursing homes, orphanages, and homes for the blind in those areas. Over ten thousand warm blankets were handed out to those in need. Food supplies and blankets were also offered to about one hundred monks, nuns, and tantric practitioners stranded in Bodhgaya due to the pandemic. In addition to that, over fifty thousand protection masks were distributed among students at several schools in other areas. All the local people and related offices in those areas expressed their appreciation and gratitude at the completion of these charitable and philanthropic activities.  

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