Rakshak Accident and Rescue Service
The service is providing help by getting medicines and other facilities for Covid care. The NGO helps people get medicines that are unavailable in their area. Those in need can contact Rakshak 24/7
Angamaly (Ernakulam)
Sehion Preshita Sangam
The organisation has been providing food for those in quarantine and also those suffering due to the lockdown, besides the poor. The central kitchen provides food for over 1,000 people and this sometimes goes above 2,000.
Edakochi
For Speech and Hearing Impaired
National Institute of Speech and Hearing (NISH) has launched a 24 7 helpline exclusively for speech and hearing-impaired persons.
The helpline offers counselling services to stress-related issues in addition to answering queries and concerns relating to Covid-19. Sign language interpreters are available to attend WhatsApp video calls.
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At a time when most of the country is confined indoors, thousands of Indians are finding simple, yet powerfully effective ways meal prep, pet care, grocery runs, and social support to name a few to help friends, neighbours and strangers through the Coronavirus pandemic
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Twenty-six-year-old Jyoti Yadav had never covered the health beat but when
The Printâs Lucknow reporter fell sick (like every second journalist there), she was catapulted into this hotspot of Indiaâs unfolding Covid-19 crisis. For the first few days things seemed manageable, she said, but then all hell broke loose. Since then sheâs wandered the city like a watchful spirit, distributing masks to ill-equipped constables; and counting deaths at cremato