The UPS Foundation announced a $1 million commitment to fight the COVID-19 surge in India. The combination of emergency funding, in-kind transportation movements and technical expertise is intended to provide urgent relief, as well as strategic support.

“The UPS Foundation is committed to improving the well-being of communities impacted by COVID-19 and we want to help alleviate the suffering in India by leveraging our partnerships, our resources and our logistics expertise,” UPS Foundation President Nikki Clifton said in a statement.

The equipment shipped to India from New York on May 7 included 260 oxygen concentrators, 1,000 oximeters, and nine Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure machines.

Non-profit organization Sewa International said that it has spent over $6 million to procure lifesaving equipment in the last two weeks as part of its 'Help India Defeat COVID-19' campaign.

The equipment shipped to India from New York on May 7 included 260 oxygen concentrators, 1,000 oximeters, and nine Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure machines, it said in a statement.

MedShare, a non-profit organization that sources and delivers surplus medical supplies and equipment to communities...

Sewa International Sends Over $6 Million Worth of Medical Equipment to India

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Houston, TX: Sewa International has spent more than six million dollars in the last two weeks to procure lifesaving equipment such as oxygen concentrators, ventilators, BiPap, and CPAP machines as part of its ‘Help India Defeat COVID-19’ Campaign.

Sewa shipped 260 Inogen oxygen concentrators, 1,000 oximeters, and nineBiPap machines from New York on Friday, May 7. UPS Foundation partnered with Sewa International to ship them to New Delhi by air for free. MedShare, a non-profit organization that sources...

CHICAGO: At a Press Conference at Rainbow Push Coalition Headquarters in Chicago convened by its founder Rev Jesse Jacksonappealed to the World to Assist India in her fight against the Corona pandemic.

Dr. Bharat Barai, Oncologist& Chairman,US India Friendship Council, Chicago asked Rev Jackson to speak to President Biden to immediately release the 60 million vaccine doses stockpiled at Baltimore to India

Rev Jesse Jackson speaking at the Press Conference said he would speak to President Biden to immediately release the 60 million vaccines of Astra Zeneca doses stockpiled in Baltimore.

Further Rev Jackson said he would personally speak to the Health care Industry to donate Oxygen Concentrators and...

As COVID-19 cases in India soared over the last week – with 359,000 new cases recorded in 24 hours on Tuesday – St. Thomas businessman Pash Daswani wanted to do something to help the people.

“I didn’t know where to start,” he said, adding the effort had to be targeted because “India is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.”

Thanks to a couple of phone calls, one incoming from an India friend on St. John, the other outgoing to the India Consulate in Atlanta, a plan began to gel. Daswani is the president of the V.I. India Association – a 501(c)3 – and the organization is in a unique position to receive tax-deductible donations that will be sent to another 501(c)3 that has already mobilized to purchase oxygen concentrators that can be used by an entire family.

More than 1,000 oxygen concentrators are being shipped to India to help with the pandemic crisis there, thanks to the efforts of the Council of Indian Organizations of Greater Philadelphia.

The lifesaving devices are among many supplies that people of Indian heritage and others in the Delaware Valley have provided to India in recent weeks.

Paresh Birla, of Lower Makefield, is council president and, as such, is directing the work to help people in his native land where variants of the coronavirus have emerged in the past two months, causing scores of infections and fatalities.  Medical supplies, particularly oxygen cannisters, have become scarce as the nation of 1.3 billion people grapples with the ongoing pandemic. ...

HOUSTON, May 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sewa International has procured 7,482 oxygen concentrators, 20,500 pulse oximeters, 250 ventilators, 256 co-ventilators and other much needed medical equipment and has shipped most of these to India via UPS over the past two weeks. Working with its partners in India, Sewa International has distributed more than 4,000 medicine kits, and 5,000 essential kits. As Indian hospitals and care agencies struggle to meet this dire medical emergency, Sewa volunteers have been working across the country, in small towns and big cities to offer information about hospital bed availability, medical equipment distribution, vaccinations, and testing for COVID-19. Sewa International has already spent...

Indian-Americans have been a pillar of support for India in its fight against COVID-19, Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu said here.
Sandhu, India’s Ambassador to the US, held a virtual interaction with some of the prominent Indian-American leaders from across the country on Thursday, during which he appreciated their overwhelming support.
“Interacted with Indian American community leaders across the US this afternoon. Diaspora in the US has been a strong pillar of support in our fight against the pandemic. Appreciate their efforts,” Sandhu said in a tweet later.
The outpour of assistance demonstrates the strength of the India-US partnership, he noted, and briefed the representatives about India’s immediate requirements in the fight against the pandemic. The Ambassador assured that the embassy and the consulates remain fully committed in facilitating and channelising the community’s offers of assistance. Several leaders of the community spoke during the interaction, outlining their efforts to contribute to the ongoing efforts in all possible manner.
Indian-American organisations have raised millions of dollars for COVID-19 assistance to India — the American India Foundation has raised...

Devastating images out of India as the COVID-19 crisis deepens throughout the country.

"Our heart goes out to all our family and friends and the general public that have been affected very badly from this crisis," said Mohan Subramanian.

The crisis is hitting close to home for members of the India Society of Southern Arizona (ISSA).

"It happened in my own family. My cousin. I lost my cousin two days ago," said Raj Subramaniam the president of the ISSA.

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