The power of community volunteering
Yudhvir Mor Filed on June 11, 2021
Many of the volunteers at Covidwidows.in try to find jobs for the widows using their own connections
Amid the fearsome second wave swamping India, I saw the trauma of a recently deceased friend’s family his widow and two small children and the thought of doing something to help Covid-affected people began to form in my mind. This idea crystallised into a plan of supporting women widowed by Covid by enabling them to find employment. I realised that being a senior executive in the software industry, I could go to a lot of CXOs (chief experience officers) and CEOs (chief executive officers) and ask them to do some dedicated hiring for these women. I came up with the term ‘humanity hiring’. I would ask them, “You hire thousands every year; can you hire a few people 1 per cent, 2 per cent, 5 per cent for humanity?”