You're not enjoying lockdown, but you know you are comparatively better off than many others. And you want to help people who do not have your privilege.
Here are a few suggestions.
• Of course, there's the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund
These are campaigns on fund-raising sites that aim to:
1. Help medical professionals with equipment (masks, etc.)
2. Assist daily wagers with basic sustainance, food grains, etc.
3. Support sanitation workers and others
4. Donate to provide soap, sanitizers, etc. to people
With most of these, the platforms are waiving their charges, so all money goes to the fundraisers.
One request: pay via net banking; a credit card means the platform pays credit card charges.
• Give India's fundraiser to feed Covid-19-hit families and also this page.
• Give India's fundraiser for hygiene kits
• Ketto's dedicated Covid-19 page, where you can find multiple campaigns:
• Milaap's dedicated Covid-19 page, where you can find multiple campaigns:
• Buy masks for medical workers. PharmEasy will match your donations. (It's 200 rupees a mask.)
Some more
• Want to volunteer in your neighbourhood, please see this Facebook group set up to 'help people help people', Caremongers India
• Campaign for daily-wage workers in Delhi on OurDemocracy
• Uday Foundation's campaign on Ketto
• Campaign to buy Ventilators & Medical Supplies For COVID-19 Ward At St. John's NAHS, Bangalore on Ketto
• Support for Wastepickers in a time of COVID 19
• Habitat for Humanity India: Hygiene Kits to the underprivileged to fight against COVID-19
A few more I've found
• Sumanasa Foundation is seeking contributions to buy provisions for community kitchens run by the Greater Chennai Corporation. Indian rupee contributions to Axis Bank account 91101001257036, IFSC UTIB0000006. Source, this tweet by the musician TM Krishna, one of the trustees.
• RotiGhar is distributing freshly-cooked meals to security guards, labourers, rag-pickers and others in and around Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Bhiwandi. Contributions via Paytm / Gpay to +91-97691-81218 or UPI chinukwatra@okaxis. WhatsApp these numbers for details: +91-96993-96544, +91-96190-89050, +91-99877-30605, +91-75063-84025, +91-95946-09229, +91-72087-73650. Follow (on Twitter): RotiGharIndia and founder chinukofficial
• Goonj's campaign (foreign passport holders can also contribute)
• Zomato's Feeding India campaign (tax deductions available: (more info)
• SAFA Society's campaign collecting funds for relief packages in Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru (tax exemptions available)
• Covid-19 Relief Fund for Daily Wage Workers of Chandigarh/Tricity on OurDemocracy
• Sangama, which works with working class, non-English speaking gender/sexual minorities, sex workers and people living with HIV, is raising funds for family units of sex workers, and transpeople
• Apnalaya is reaching out to vulnerable households in M Ward. Follow their Twitter (@ApnalayaTweets) or support at apnalaya.org/donation/
• Coro India, which works on equality and justice in gender-related issues, is raising funds for food packages, masks, sanitisers and soap for daily-wage workers.
• Fit Brigade: Independent volunteers from Mumbai to help senior citizens who are living alone with delivery of essential items (groceries, medicines, fruits and vegetables) and cooked meals. Contacts: South Mumbai: 9821887707/ 9820391911; Central Railway suburbs: 9004670600/ 9833170665/9773706712; Western Railway suburbs: 9819236951/9821159710/9022420360
• AngelXpress Foundation, which enables volunteerism, primarily with teaching is now working on bringing relief to their student's families. Contact them or support via instamojo
• Sparsha Charitable Trust which works in the Wadala area, is seeking support for getting supplies to vulnerable families there. Email info.sparshatrust at gmail dot com
• YUVA (Youth for Unity And Voluntary Action) is raising funds for the urban poor.
• If you own a 3-D printer and would like to help doctors expand their ventilator capacity via 3D printing valves and splitters, see this page
• Gurgaon Nagrik Ekta Manch is collecting for Gurgaon's stranded daily wage labourers
• Ahmedabad based youth organisations (Elixir, Ahmedabad Global Shapers, Hearty Mart, Communicate Karo, Amdavad Rockets and HeyHi Foundation) have an #AhmedabadFightsCorona campaign
• Project Mumbai has a free counselling facility for people in Mumbai, 8 am to 8 pm, across multiple languages, including Marathi Hindi English Gujarati Malayalam Punjabi and Kannada. More here on Twitter
• Project Mumbai is also helping the Maharashtra govt provide N-95 masks to healthcare workers.
• kashtakaripanchayat.org is raising funds for sanitation workers in Pune, and Pimpri-Chinchwad
• Mercy Mission in Bangalore is a federation of NGOs coming together to #FightCoronaTogether. See their (work in progress) page on Facebook.
I'll be updating this post as often as I get new information, and also this Twitter thread and this Facebook post.
