As you all know, India is experiencing a huge surge in COVID-19 cases. This has resulted in overwhelming the country’s hospitals and led to thousands of people dying. India has also experienced a massive shortage of oxygen, and the administration is struggling to vaccinate people amid this surge.
Let us do our bit to help India through this unprecedented crisis.
Multiple clubs in our District have initiated efforts. Here, we are sharing information to enable you to choose your method of contribution. Also included are links to make your tax deductible contributions.
If you like to share information of your club’s similar efforts, please send an email with details to Olivia Poe, our District Administrator, at admin@rotarydistrict5170.org.
Yes, your generosity can save lives!
Rotary Club of Silicon Andhra
Contact: Anand Kuchibhotla - anand@siliconandhrarotary.org
SiliconAndhra Sanjivani Hospital in Kuchipudi, India is a NONPROFIT hospital serving rural population. Sanjivani is treating Covid patients but we need more oxygen, to serve more patients, the need of the day. Please help us procure the oxygen cylinders and other related equipment to provide LIFE support to more Covid Patients. Every donation helps to save lives.
Link to Donate:
Rotary Club of Cupertino
Contacts:
Alysa Sakkas (Cupertino Rotary) - asakkas@gmail.com
Bala Ramakrishnan (Rotary E-Club of SV Smart Village and Pratham) - balagopalan@gmail.com
The Rotary Club of Cupertino is supporting a global grant for an oxygen generator in New Delhi. In the meantime, there is an additional effort to provide for more immediate distribution of oxygen products, but India needs funding. Please consider making a donation personally, or from your clubs.
Pratham USA and Cupertino Rotary have a long partnership working together on Rotary International global grant work. Pratham has a very successful history of mobilizing resources and people effectively all across India and have established the Pratham Covid Relief Fund. Their plan includes:
- Securing and delivering oxygen concentrators as well as rapid tests, vaccines, and personal protective equipment (PPE) to Indian hospitals and care centers.
- Exploring the conversion of Pratham vocational training centers and district offices into alternate facilities for Covid treatment.
- Coordinating field response teams to aid in the distribution of supplies and ensuring relevant and timely dissemination of accurate information in regional languages.
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Additionally, the Vijay and Marie Goradia Charitable Foundation has pledged to match your donation dollar for dollar.
Rotary Club of Silicon Valley for Global Impact
Contact: Ravi Pathak - ravi_pathak@yahoo.com
A warlike emergency has emerged due to a new round of Covid-19 pandemic spread across India. Rotary Club of Silicon Valley for Global Impact, with its members from Overseas Volunteer for Better India (OVBI) and the International Association for Human Values (IAHV), is stepping up relief efforts providing the much-needed oxygen cylinders & oxygen concentrators to people in need across the country. Since there is low availability of hospital beds for critically impacted patients, providing much-needed supplies to those who are home quarantined is the only means to aid in their survival and treatment while staying at home.
On the ground in India, IAHV and Art of Living (AOL) drive a mammoth effort to supply critical equipment to the Hospitals in need. Our teams have established a supply chain to import Oxygen Concentrators (portable machines that generate purified O2 from ambient air) from outside India.
This campaign is a plea to raise funds to procure Oxygen Concentrators in larger quantities to meet the huge demand and help millions impacted. With the supply chain in place, the IAHV team can get these machines imported in 4 to 5 days. An Oxygen Concentrator cost is approximately $800 per unit. IAHV may also use these funds for other critical equipment such as Ventilators, Beds, etc., depending on how the situation evolves further.
Rotary Club of Santa Cruz Sunrise
Contact: (Rotary and Red Cross): Camilla.Boolootian@redcross.org
Since the outset of the outbreak, the Indian Red Cross is an essential partner working at the frontlines alongside the Government of India. Even now thousands of Indian Red Cross workers across 550 districts from New Delhi to Bangaluru are helping to run quarantine centers, providing meals and rations to migrants and people in host communities, provide oxygen cylinders to people with severe COVID-19 symptoms and stepping up vaccinations, while also providing free masks, soap and gloves to those most at risk.
The Indian Red Cross in coordination with the Indian Government and the support of the global Red Cross network is:
Coordinating with the Ministry of Health to support Indian Red Cross branches with medical facilities with the provision of oxygen cylinders, oxygen concentrators, and COVID-19 prevention kits. The procurement of medical supplies is being supported by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
Mobilize additional ambulances, blood services as well as 24/7 helpline services.
Scale up the risk communication and awareness campaigns across the country to address misinformation on COVID/immunization
Procuring and distributing hygiene kits, masks, sanitizers/soaps to the vulnerable populations as well as front line Red Cross staff and volunteers.
Red Cross World-wide efforts
Around the world from Colombia to India, Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are responding in every region, coordinating with their governments, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), WHO, and other public health organizations to help keep people safe from COVID-19. Each Red Cross and Red Crescent response has been tailored based on the needs of each country and the phase of the outbreak being experienced. Join us today and you can help people affected by the Coronavirus around the world. Your donation enables the Red Cross to prepare for, respond to and help people recover from this virus.
By supporting the global Red Cross response, you allow us to mobilize assistance quickly and adapt to the ever changing global needs as we help communities affected by COVID-19.
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Rotary E-Club of Silicon Valley Smart Village
Contact: Rajan Kapur - rajan.kapur@larankelo.com
The Antara Foundation has been tackling maternal and child mortality in Rural India in partnership with government and frontline health workers. Our rural COVID response effort has grown from this, and is focused in Madhya Pradesh on prevention and vaccine preparedness to support 40,000 health staff in 6,500 villages (population covered approximately 10 million) by:
- Supply PPE and screening equipment (masks, gloves, oximeters, thermometers, batteries) to all frontline workers and facilities
- Train comprehensively in COVID protocols for prevention, testing, care
- Educate the community on prevention, testing and mobilize demand for vaccination
We have close trust-based relationships on the ground. 100% of funds raised are deployed for COVID with no overheads. All procurement and logistics is supervised by our field team. We provide timely, detailed impact reports.
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