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.
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