Omidyar Network India grants ₹26 crore to collaborative efforts focussed on Covid relief
May 25, 2021
Hopes to help address urgent and critical issues facing those most vulnerable Omidyar Network India on Tuesday announced that it has granted ₹13 crore ($1.75 million) each to Give Foundation, India’s trusted online donation platform and United Way Bengaluru, a leading collaborative non-profit platform.
The funds will be used by Give Foundation to help strengthen the capacity of institutions, healthcare staff, volunteers, caregivers to enable a more effective response. This may include development of protocols/ standards etc. Give Foundation will focus on rural areas that have been severely underserved and encourage retail donors to contribute to the Covid relief effort by matching their funding.
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The end of one year and the beginning of another is a good time to take stock of the time gone by. But where does one begin in a year that has upended nearly every aspect of our lives? 2020 was at once a reality check and a time of reckoning. It confronted us with problems we had never imagined and taught us lessons to last a lifetime.
Covid-19 laid bare the vulnerability of several sections of our population which were disproportionately affected on economic and health fronts. Most of these people are from the bottom 60 per cent of India s income distribution, the lower and lower middle-income segments, which we refer to as the Next Half Billion.