The Indian women's hockey team on Friday launched a fitness challenge to help the families of migrant workers facing trouble in the lockdown implemented due to the Covid-19 epidemic. To prevent the spread of coronavirus infection, nationwide lockdown in force till May 3 across the country. Women hockey players have decided to raise relief funds through public participation for the purpose of feeding at least 1000 families during the nationwide lockdown.

In a release issued from Hockey India, Indian captain Rani Rampal said, 'Every day we are reading in newspapers and social media that a lot of people are struggling for food, we have helped these people as a team. She told 'We thought that an online fitness challenge would be the best way for this. We can also urge people to remain active during the nationwide lockdown. Through this initiative, our goal is to raise sufficient funds for the food of at least for 1000 families.

The money received from public participation will be donated to the Uday Foundation, a Delhi-based non-governmental organization (NGO). It will be used to provide basic necessities for migrant workers residing in various places and sick people living in slums. Under this fund, apart from providing food and ration, people will also be given necessary items like sanitizer and soap for cleaning.

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As a part of this challenge, the women team players will be seen challenging through social media including exercises like Burpee, Lunges, Squats to Spider-Man Pushups and Pogo Hops. Every day the player will give a new challenge and will tag 10 people and request to donate 100 rupees for it.

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The vice-captain of the team, Savita said, 'Every day we will give a fun new challenge which can be done by anyone. Anyone who accepts this challenge can donate 100 rupees or more. We sincerely hope that people will support us for this noble cause.

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She said, 'We all come from poor backgrounds in the Indian women's hockey team and we have seen days when we had to struggle for food and other basic things. Today we are in a position to help and we want to ensure that poor people get basic things like food and sanitary kits.