Facebook and WhatsApp are dwelling to some very useful teams which can be providing completely different sorts of COVID-19 disaster help throughout the nation. Groups primarily based in Gurgaon, Mumbai, and different cities are providing help for assist associated to plasma donation, discovering hospitals with free beds, and simply getting volunteers for various reduction measures. Social media platforms, together with Twitter and Instagram, are more and more turning into a preferred medium to search for assist throughout the large second wave in India, which is believed to be extra deadly than final 12 months.
Several neighborhood teams on Facebook and WhatsApp are extending help to folks in want throughout this time of disaster. Here are a number of the distinguished ones under:
1. Humankind Global on Facebook
The Humankind Global group on Facebook helps join individuals who want one thing with people who find themselves keen to supply assist. This group’s networking circle is pan-India, which suggests customers from any a part of the nation can publish a query with the hope to get a response.
2.World Martaha Organisation on Facebook
The World Maratha Organisation group on Facebook presents any help associated to medical assist like blood, plasma, and hospital help. The folks on this group community throughout Maharashtra and customers may even e-mail for assist at worldmaratha@gmail.com. This is a personal group on Facebook and customers might want to get authorized earlier than they’ll entry its advantages.
3. Network Capital on WhatsApp
Network Capital group on WhatsApp is an effort led by 24×7 devoted volunteers providing psychological well being assets, COVID-19 useful resource collaboration, and job help with free mentoring hours. This is a personal group and its community spreads throughout metro cities with members in over 100 international locations.
4. Gurgaon Helpline and Gurgaon Food Freak Platform on Facebook
The Gurgaon Helpline and Gurgaon Food Freak platforms on Facebook is a bunch that appears to assist one another find hospital beds, drugs, plasma, medical doctors and different info on an ongoing foundation. In Gurgaon Food Freak, dwelling cooks and members have come collectively to offer dwelling cooked meals for quarantined households. Both these teams are non-public and look to assist the folks of Gurgaon. Users can publish a question on the group and assist one another out.
5. Powai Women Networking on Facebook
This group is led by ladies who’re largely residents of Mumbai , however they’ve offered help to members’ households in different cities like Delhi, Bangalore, Jaipur, Indore, Lucknow and in addition Singapore, Bangkok, and many others. The group presents help of assorted nature – it could possibly be medical assist (solutions for medical doctors), enterprise help, being pregnant/maternity associated, youngsters’ welfare, ladies points, monetary as effectively. In the present state of affairs, the group has helped lots of people discover what they have been searching for (oxygen, meals, donor, injections, and many others.).
Apart from Facebook, Twitter has additionally been a superb useful resource for residents to search for hospital beds, plasma, and medical provides. As the medical infrastructure in India is collapsing, we’ve additionally curated a listing of social media handles that would show useful to these in want and make it simpler for folks to seek out assist.
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