Bengal Crisis: Fundraising organizations
Bulletin published on: May 15, 2021
যদি জন্ম নেই আবার, চাই স্বদেশ, স্বভুমি, স্বভাষা আর অকৃত্রিম ভালোবাসা...
Help West Bengal. বাংলা বাঁচান।
People of West Bengal need our support.
We are helping organizations raise funds
Cyclone has devastated many homes...
Presenting documented reports on donations and support activities volunteered by TriState Community organizations
CAB/NABC, New York
CAB/NABC sent $10,000 to The Kolkata-based NGO Mukti to support their groundwork to help affected villagers from recent cyclone Yash and COVID-19. The picture above shows Mukti serving cooked food to villagers in the Sunderban area standing in deep water for a meal.
Five Bengali women in the US have been reported by Ananda Bajar Online News for helping Kolkata with oxygen concentrator
পঞ্চকন্যা। আমেরিকা থেকেই বাংলার কোভিড আক্রান্তদের পাশে দাঁড়িয়েছেন চকোরী, পারমিতা, অনিন্দিতা, মণিদীপা, সৃজনীরা...
Ranjita Chakrabarty of Sreeshti, New Jersey, together with team members: Partha Halder, Subhojit Chowdhury, Sumit Ghosh, Ripon Roy, and Kousik Bhowal are working consistently in raising funds to help the people of West Bengal.
Sreeshti is a non-profit (501c3) Social and Cultural organization with 200 plus members, working with organizations in India and the US, to reach out to the affected people in West Bengal.
Ranjita Chakrabarty reports:
"We have organized Fundraising campaigns in two phases here in the US and raised approximately 10K US dollars to support the Covid Wave 1 and 2 victims. We have reached the people at the ground level to help them in this pandemic situation. We are honored to receive a Letter of Appreciation from the president of ROTARY CLUB OF CALCUTTA, Labanhrad, and MUKTI."
Here are some initiatives from Sreeshti-
- To support COVID Wave 2, Sreeshti collaborated with Rotary Club of Calcutta, Labanhrad, and joined them in their “Shohomormi”- সহমর্মী”initiatives:
- 24 x 7 Doctor-On-Call facility for medical guidance.
- 24 x 7 Ambulance facility for transferring the COVID patients from their homes to different hospitals and safe homes at nominal rates.
- Setting up a COVID-19 test camp for people.
- Setting up an online facility for psychological support to people of all age groups and professions facing acute mental depression and trauma due to the current crisis situation.
- Sreeshtiplans to establish a 24 x 7 Door Steps Services just on a phone call to provide emergency services requiring drugs, oxygen cylinder, nebulizer, oximeter, masks, gloves, PPE to the COVID affected people.
- The facility for supplying food and daily needs at the doorsteps of the elderly people along with the COVID positive patients to curtail further spread of a pandemic.
- A helpline has been launched to help bereaved families to get certificates and thus, smoothen the funeral process.
2) Sreeshti collaborates with MUKTI to extend support to the needy Corona impacted people with Oxygen & Medical kit support. The group is procuring a large number of Oxygen Concentrator, which will extract Oxygen from the air and supply directly 5/10 ltr per min. One Oxygen concentrator will serve around 10 patients. Each Oxygen Concentrator costing us around 50,000 INR.
3) Sreeshti’s next collaboration is with Tapassya to buy Oxygen concentrators for the Covid affected people in Kolkata.
4) Sreeshti is also in the process of collaborating with Prof. Manu Prakash (Stanford University) and his team https:www.indiacovidsos.org previously repurposed sleep apnea machines (CPAP/BiPAP) into special use ventilators by adding custom adapters to support patients with COVID-19 associated breathing problems. So far, the India COVID SOS team has 300 CPAP/BiPAP machines with the help of volunteers and communities via NextDoor, Facebook, as well as other news media campaigns.
to come together and fight poverty in Kolkata.
The board pays all administrative and fundraising costs so that 100%
of donations go directly to fighting the cause.
To help fight the COVID 2nd wave in Kolkata, the organization’s goal is:
Provide oxygen concentrators,
pulse oximeters, vaccines to those in need.
So far, to this date, 121 donors’ names have been posted
at this ‘Donate’ page link where you can donate
any amount to help West Bengal cope with the second wave COVID:
Kolkata Foundation has reported documented
use of donations made to the team:
Dhritiman Banerjee of Kolkata Foundation informed -
"100% of our money goes towards relief works,
since the board of all the 3 fundraising nonprofits pay for
our admin costs"
We have consulted extensively with the top-level officers of
Sewa International and Vedanta Society (the American branch of Ramakrishna Mission).
As our first choice, we have come up with Sewa International, USA
and we are sending them a check for $3089.98 for
Oxygen concentrators.
The fundraising drive will continue, and we are inviting suggestions
from you, dear members for names of excellent organizations
to which the money can be sent next time.
Liver Foundation, West Bengal and appeals:
Please donate generously to the Kallol link below:
https://www.kallol.com/coviddonation
LIVER FOUNDATION, WEST BENGAL
A not-for-profit, non-government organization playing a pivotal role in
placing liver diseases as a priority health issue in India.
Initiated in 2006 by a group of Liver specialists, clinicians
with an interest in Liver diseases, academicians with social commitment, and social activists.
GSCA
(Garden State Cultural Association) writes:
GSCA Women’s Forum and GSCA Philanthropic Committee
are advancing efforts to raise donations from
members and patrons to send funds to West Bengal and India
through Bharat Sevasram Sangha, Sewa International, and Mukti Foundation
for oxygen crisis in a severe spread of
COVID-19 among people of West Bengal.
Ananda Mandir urges all members and friends
to donate generously to non-profit organizations
that are working tirelessly to bring
life-saving oxygen generators
and related medical equipment (such as pulse oximeters)
to COVID-19 patients in West Bengal.
We recommend the following organization for your donations:
Kolkata Foundation.
Ananda Mandir will donate $10,000 to jump-start this donation drive.