New Delhi: Bollywood singer Mohit Chauhan, by means of his NGO Nivesh and its initiative Project Bajrangi, is working to acquire and provide life-saving gear like oxygen concentrators, oxygen cylinders and oximeters to COVID-19 sufferers, frontline employees, their households and others in want. They are presently elevating funds through crowdfunding on Donatekart.
Asked what made him give you this COVID-19 reduction marketing campaign, the singer advised IANSlife that ‘Project Bajrangi’ comes from an area of his private loss.
“We had a civil work contractor by the name of Bajrangi Maurya. A wonderful man, full of integrity, honesty, discipline and polite to the core. Bajrangi had been working with us on a contractual basis overseeing the renovation of our house for close to two years now. He was not keeping well and after we insisted for a COVID test – one evening he called to say he had tested positive. He said he’d taken the medicines and would be home. Next evening around 6 p.m. he called to say he was feeling unwell and needed a hospital because his oxygen levels were dropping. That’s when we first realised how much pressure Delhi hospitals were under,” he stated.
As they began trying for a hospital, they figured each hospital was full. “Panic struck us too. We asked our friends who we thought could help. They tried what they could and with the help of DCP South, Mr Atul Thakur we did find him a bed in one of the hospitals. At about midnight, oxygen at the hospital finished and we again started looking for another place. This went on the entire night.”
When a mattress might lastly be organized within the morning in Faridabad, “news arrived that Bajrangi had finally left for home after finding nothing anywhere and he had passed away a little after reaching home in Sangam Vihar. That news shook us. With Bajrangi gone we were left shocked and defeated. Already through our friends we were trying to help people get access to medical care.”
Chauhan stated that they then began a small SOS group for serving to COVID sufferers. The group contains frequent pals, his spouse, her sisters, and their pals. Together they supply out what is required by individuals and issues that requests are available for.
“Since the second wave started, our house sounds like a COVID call centre with phones ringing non stop. This is such a sensitive time and we want to do everything we can to help, but we also want to do it with people who are trustworthy and transparent. This is when we decided to start a fundraiser on Donatekart called Project Bajrangi so that we could help as many people as possible. In the past few days, we have been able to help people get oxygen cylinders, concentrators, N-95 masks, oxymetres and sanitizers purely as donation through Donatekart’s platform. It’s heartening to see people coming forward to help. We are also helping frontline workers in Delhi Police and hospitals and other needy people,” knowledgeable Chauhan.
The singer has additionally been amplifying SOS requests through his Twitter deal with.
His NGO Nivesh has been actively serving to individuals and animals because the starting of the pandemic. They have additionally been feeding greater than 150 stray animals in Delhi day-after-day, put in greater than 100 consuming water pots and meals bowls throughout varied areas in parks, and offered medical therapy to the wounded.
What are his ideas on COVID-19 heroes who’re working on-line and offline? Is this humanity coming collectively to avoid wasting itself?
“I believe it is an awesome factor. If you might be human there isn’t a approach you cannot be affected by the tragedy that has struck us. Everyone I spoke to has a private story of loss to relate. When we’re carried out with this wave, we’ll discover it troublesome to rely the variety of lives misplaced and the households destroyed. The put up pandemic world will want critical hand holding. We’ll have to assist individuals with psychological well being points as a result of this pandemic will depart us all emotionally and mentally battered.
“So, right now when the pandemic is at its peak, we need ordinary people like you and me to do all we can to help others. I’ve seen so many people come forward and donate to our fundraiser on Donatekart. Project Bajrangi continues to receive a lot of support, and that gives me hope, seeing ordinary people coming together and helping each other. There are people who have helped save lives in hospitals that you’d never hear about. This is a raging storm. And in a storm there is only one way you can get past… by holding hands and walking together.”
One can donate to the NGO and Project Bajrangi initiative on Donatekart.
