How New Yorkers are organizing aid for Indiaâs COVID-19 crisis By Anna Lucente Sterling New York City PUBLISHED 2:30 PM ET May. 05, 2021 PUBLISHED 2:30 PM EDT May. 05, 2021
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Thenmozhi Soundararajanâs days have been consumed the past few weeks with phone calls as early as 3 a.m. from people desperate for help with the COVID-19 crisis in India.
As the executive director and co-founder of Equality Labs, a grassroots organization serving South Asians across the country, sheâs been fielding calls from members across the five boroughs with family members in India.
âWe have so much grief and we ll have more grief to process,â said Soundararajan, who lives in Brooklyn. âThe situation is urgent because people are dying in the middle of the street. People are dying on the way to the hospital. Peopl