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Jordan (left), Jasmine (middle) and Jaden Lind have created a campaign to aid India.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Three siblings in Santa Barbara have created a campaign to aid India, as the country copes with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the world.
Over the past few weeks, Marymount 5th grader Jasmine Lind has been paying close attention to the COVID-19 crisis in India.
“I’ve seen a lot of devastating photos of people not getting vaccines and waiting without oxygen,” she said.
Her brother, Jordan, is a sophomore at San Marcos High School.
“I’ve just see just a lot of people struggling to get oxygen because a lot of people have COVID right now in India,” he said.
Here s how Texans can help people suffering in India right now
It s estimated that 120 people are dying in India every hour due to COVID-19 and a lack of oxygen to give to patients. Author: Hannah Rucker Updated: 7:11 PM CDT May 6, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas People in India are in need of global aid right now as the country runs desperately low on life-saving supplies like oxygen while it experiences a wave of COVID-19 infections.
The death rate for the country is now 120 people an hour.
Local Austin immigration attorney Pooja Sethi said she was able to connect with other local Indian women who all had the same passion to help.
mocked up a T-shirt that reads in Hindi and Urdu: “Help India Breathe.”
In a matter of days, she’s raised more than $1,000 in T-shirt sales and donations for the distribution of oxygen cylinders through the Hemkunt Foundation.
Part of Rathore’s motivation in designing T-shirts was to alert people outside of India to how dire the situation is there contrary to the rosier picture painted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Premature Victory Called
In January, while Los Angeles County was struggling through a deadly surge, Modi declared his country’s triumph over COVID during a speech to the World Economic Forum.
Indiaspora, a nonprofit community of global Indian diaspora leaders, announced they raised $1 million toward COVID-19 relief efforts within the last 48 hours, and will aim to double the impact of their donations by offering to match funds May 1 during the virtual event, Help India Breathe,â reports ANI. We are proud of our community s response. The outpouring of support from the Indian diaspora has been immediate and overwhelming, said Sanjeev Joshipura, executive director of Indiaspora. We hope Saturday s event will continue to raise awareness and provide another opportunity for all of us to give. This has the potential to serve as a launch pad for additional and much-needed help for relief efforts in India.