To cope with the pandemic, SSS has endorsed a range of congenial interventions for keeping the target people and itself into positive and tolerant stance. The special interventions on COVID-19 of the organization are demonstrated below:
- SSS conducted the offices following hygiene rules issued by the Health and Family Welfare Ministry.
- Every office of the organization arranged bleaching powder mixed jute-sack (for sanitizing feet) at the entrance, monitored body temperature with digital thermometer and sanitized the office rooms regularly.
- The organization limited the entry of outsiders into office, took up digital systems to manage, monitor and control the workforce and activities and emphasized to become economy to reduction unnecessary expenses.
- The organization continued to pay the salary and facilities, and necessary leaves with payment on COVID-19 related requirement to the staff members. In the case of death a staff member from COVID-19, the organization provided one million taka to the family of the staff member as a special grant.
- SSS took up special initiative on the socio-economic security for beneficiaries emphasizing health-nutrition, financial sustainability, positive mentality and encouragement, proper credit and savings services, production and preservation and so on.
- The organization prepared a list on pregnant, chronic-disease-affected and elderly staff members and gave them necessary advice for their safety measures.
- SSS formed a medical team and a special cell for providing counsels, collecting data and monitoring to the staff members on COVID-19 related cases. The organization also made COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for the all staff members and encouraged the beneficiaries to take the same.
Mentioned, COVID-19 took away the lives of three employees and 44 group-members of the organization. SSS always remembers them offering prayer to the Almighty for the deliverance of their departed soul.