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Determined to help India through the pandemic, Noor Shaik, of Bensalem, launched an international relief effort to ship much-needed supplies to her birth country.
This medical student wanted to help her family in India. Now a 900-pound shipment of supplies is on its way.
Noor Shaik, 27, received so many donations that she had to temporarily move out of her dorm room (Razin Karu; Washington Post illustration) Cathy Free
May 17, 2021
Noor Shaik felt heartbroken and helpless after talking on the phone with her 83-year-old grandmother in India last month.
“Here I was, enjoying my life and my family in the United States, while over there, everyone was worried about going into lockdown [over the coronavirus],” said Shaik, 27, a medical student at Thomas Jefferson University’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia.