Covid Fundraiser Update: We Did It!
Here’s how you helped set up 9 rural Covid care clinics.
Thanks to your generous contribution, rural communities in Chamarajanagar have better Covid care today!
As you know, the second wave of Covid19 has ravaged these underserved rural communities we work with. On May 3rd alone, 24 people died in 24 hours in Chamarajanagar government hospital. Many of them died due to oxygen shortage. And many of these deaths could have been prevented. And your donations are helping us do precisely that! Read all about our learnings from this Covid relief experience.
Our campaign raised USD 25,222 from 119 supporters in the span of about 2 weeks. With that money, we were able to purchase the pieces of critical equipment listed below. We worked with local partners Institute of Public Health (IPH India) and Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra (VGKK) to identify needs and distributed the materials to the Covid Care Centres:
We are also grateful for the in-kind donations we received: mattresses from Duroflex, Covid care kits from First Foundation, oxygen concentrators from the Indic Heritage Foundation Charitable Trust, and the funding for a community health coordinator from the Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies — among others. Read about all the other kindness we witnessed in this blogpost on Covid, Collaboration, and Kindness.
With a whole lot of support from friends like yourself, we were able to work with the district administration and public health officials to help set up 9 rural covid care clinics, as planned. Not only that, we are working with the District Health Office to help sustain these clinics even after Covid to continue to provide healthcare for these communities.
Our main takeaway has been this. Working together we were able to raise money and accomplish a result that none of us could have done on our own.
In times of emergency, people come together seamlessly in order to save lives. Maybe because the immediate need is so tangible, we feel compelled to do something. But in our day jobs at ATREE/CSEI, we work on things like climate change, regenerative agriculture, forest restoration, and livelihood creation. It’s important work but we rarely see results right away. This makes partnerships more complicated because they need to be sustained over time.
We would like to continue to build similar partnerships and communities in all the domains we work in, to be able to raise money together, build together, and make the world a better place, together.
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Thank you again for your kindness, empathy, and willingness rise to the occasion and help those in need.
