The sound of helplessness around us is deafening, really.

India is reeling under this devastating second wave of COVID. While the numbers seem to be getting better in some areas, the stark reality of damage done and its impact is now staring endlessly at people. These include Children who lost their parents, adults who lost significant others, old people who lost their children, disabled people who lost their support system, workers who lost their means of livelihood and many more. 

We are on the ground working in twin cities of Ujjain and Indore, nearby villages and elsewhere to impact lives in every way possible. Our focus is now also on rehabilitation. We are trying to help with basic survival (food and monetary), micro loans for businesses, ensuring emotional and motivational support for those in grief and finding support systems for those left without one. 

We are unique because of negligible admin overhead, ability to use the funds right away for local and grassroots level activities going directly to the beneficiary.


How will your contribution make a direct impact?

We are requesting funds to support for following activities:

1. Survival Assistance
2. Business Assistance
          a. Micro Loans for Business
          b. Retooling and Training
          c. Generating employment and business in Villages
3. Educational loans
4. Ensuring Monitored Support System for those left behind (financial, shelters etc.)
5. Motivational, Emotional Support and Grief Counselling
6. Preparedness for any future covid wave

You can also help us by making a fixed monthly commitment, for e.g. to sponsor a disabled child’s monthly care expenses. Such commitments will help us plan ahead with good degree of predictability.


How will we channel the funds?

Funds will be transferred from GoFundMe to Care Inc., which is based out of Texas, USA, and having exemption from Federal Income Tax under Internal Revenue Code 501C3. Donations made to this cause are tax deductible.

Care Inc. will transfer the money to our registered NGO in India. We will provide regular updates on funds usage for different activities.


Our Team

We are a team of professionals with experience in managing teams, trying to help in India’s fight against the deadly second wave of covid.

Gunjan Siddha, who had moved back to India after spending 16 years in the USA and leaving a successful career, has been involved with environmental and social causes. He started working on relief efforts in Ujjain (city in central India) and nearby villages with a local social group since first wave of covid. Their focused efforts and way of working created direct and substantial impact very fast and effectively at the grassroots level. 

Shortly thereafter, another relief effort at Indore (a city 30 miles away from Ujjain in Central India) was being undertaken by his fellow alumni of Government Engineering College - Ujjain (GECU). This effort is being led on ground by Siddharth Dhawale. 

Both teams decided to join hands to collectively raise funds and share resources that could benefit about 5 million residents in the area. They were joined and supported by Rahul Jaiswal, Sandeep Agrawal, Rajesh Ahuja and Prashant Tiwari (all in USA) and many other friends and well-wishers in USA, India and globally.


What is unique about us?

Three important characteristics of our approach and execution are:

1. Shortest "Raise to Use" duration for funds collected - at times this is in minutes or hours for us, which makes us extremely efficient in terms of deployment of funds on the ground.

2. Local, Grassroots Level and Direct to beneficiary - we see a need, we address it. We do not wait for help to arrive from the government or any other source and start mobilizing our resources at hand to provide all possible assistance at the earliest possible. 

3. Negligible admin overheads – 100% of the funds collected are spent on beneficiaries, directly. 


How have we used funds raised earlier?

We have raised funds so far through our personal and professional networks. Through our teams of local volunteers, we have utilized those funds for all ground level efforts like:

- 250 Oxygen cylinders

- 10 Oxygen concentrators

- Supporting new oxygen generation plants to support Make-shift hospitals in Ujjain and Indore. The one in Ujjain was arguably fastest and cheapest commissioned during covid times

- 25 Bipap machines to Govt hospitals locally and in remote areas

- Medical assistance (doctor assistance, medicines, injections, hospital beds, blood donation, plasma donation etc.) 

- Supporting families in diff ways (food, monetary help etc.) who lost their breadwinners, older people who lost their support system, people who lost their jobs or means of livelihood etc.

- Creating a positive atmosphere in Govt. hospitals and encouraging nutrition (distributing 150 KG fruits daily, donated and arranged 100 fans etc.)

- Distributing 1000 medicine kits and cylinders in many villages

- Sponsoring resources for vaccination drives helping with 22,500 vaccinations


Why should you trust us?

We are a unique “system” of its kind probably in India and the world. We have a web platform of 150k members with local roots that we leverage to mobilize help quickly. We have been doing this for a long time now (4 years and going) – quick, direct, impactful. We are nimble in our thinking and execution and take decisions instantly when we see a scope to help. One post and usually it is done in minutes or hours. 

During the first wave of covid we actively worked to provide medical, survival (rations etc.) and financial assistance (micro loans) to 100s of families.

We have helped many families confront this grave crisis by providing timely assistance. Old people with kids living abroad not knowing where to go and what to do in times of panic everywhere; old and sick parents staying alone at home, while the family member that takes care of them is hospitalized;  entire family hospitalized;  near full term pregnant females and husband hospitalized in different hospitals and small kids staying alone at home. With your contributions, we hope to continue helping people in these unprecedented and tough circumstances.