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From left to right: Manju Sheth, Deepa Jhaveri and Shaleen Sheth
BOSTONâ Women Who Win, a Massachusetts-based women empowerment media platform, recently launched âThe Shoe Projectâ charity program, which aims to provide footwear and health education to underserved global communities. It also donated over 700 pairs of shoes to underprivileged communities in Mumbai.
Dr. Deepa Jhaveri, co-founder of Women Who Win and a podiatrist, said that India has a slum population of over 80 million people, and slum residents have to walk miles every day to find back-breaking and grueling labor.
âThey often work without proper (or any) footwear. Additionally, there is a significant population of women in slums and villages who live and work barefoot,â Dr. Jhaveri said in a statement. âThis inspired the team to provide good quality, podiatrist – approved, and weather appropriate shoes to these communities because proper footwe
India News: Pakistani-origin physicians based in the United States of America have expressed solidarity with their colleagues and the people of India who are curr
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May 12, 2021
BOSTON: Pakistan-origin physicians based in the USA have expressed solidarity with colleagues and the people of India at this time of crisis catalysed by the coronavirus pandemic.
“We stand in solidarity with the people of India as they face the needless tragedies catalysed by the coronavirus pandemic,” says a statement by the Association of Pakistani Physicians of New England (APPNE), which represents over 350 medical practitioners.
Singer Arieb Azhar is among the many Pakistanis who has endorsed the American-Pakistani physicians’ statement. “Many of us are helping them (the people of India) through various means, while physicians among us regularly extend pro bono telemedical help to colleagues and patients in India,” says the statement.
COVID Crisis: Pakistani-American Physicians Express Solidarity With the People of India
âMany of us are helping them (the people of India) through various means, while physicians among us regularly extend pro bono telemedical help to colleagues and patients in India,â says the statement. Pakistani Rangers (wearing black uniforms) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) officers lower their national flags during parade on the Pakistan s 72nd Independence Day, at the Pakistan-India joint check-post at Wagah border, near Lahore, Pakistan August 14, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Mohsin Raza
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New Delhi: Pakistan-origin physicians based in the US have expressed solidarity with colleagues and the people of India as the country battles a deadly second wave of the coronavirus, offering their services through telemedical help.
Want To Help India With The Current COVID Crisis? Don t Send Medical Supplies on Your Own
Workers load oxygen cylinders to supply hospitals and medical facilities treating COVID-19 patients in Bangalore on May 5, 2021.
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The heartbreaking stories and images coming from India have many wondering how they can help. Local families with relatives there are scrambling to raise funds and send medical goods. But is it the best way to help? Doctors and public health experts say donating money to established organizations in India that have on the ground networks is a better approach.
India’s current COVID-19 wave has created an overwhelming need for oxygen and oxygen concentrators the small devices that can distill oxygen from ambient air as well as ventilators and certain medications like Remdesivir, said Dr. Dhrumil Shah, a primary care physician and current president of the Indian Medical Association of New England (IMANE). But Dr. Shah says