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COVID-19 Response

2020-2021

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to batter the world with staggering numbers of people infected and an ever-rising death toll and very large numbers of people critically ill, severely overwhelming the healthcare systems, in every country affected. The communities we serve, the poor, disadvantaged and underserved in the developing countries that we work in, are already vulnerable. The COVID shock, being of a multi-dimensional nature affecting health, social and psychological, as well as economic aspects, is debilitating for them. Of the countries in which Pragya carries out development programming (Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Nepal), India, particularly with the second wave, is significantly affected and is seeing an exponential spike in cases, with a new variant and a healthcare system that is completely clogged with an assault of millions of new cases. Pragya is therefore prioritizing its Response to address the pandemic and its fallouts in India

SECOND WAVE IN INDIA

In April 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic in India escalated to catastrophic proportions, recording the highest number of new cases for several days running, and a rapidly escalating death toll with hospitals overwhelmed and limited resources.

India’s second wave came quick and hard and its effects are brutal, with hundreds of thousands of COVID-affected families in severe distress, while healthcare workers and under-resourced hospitals struggle to source medical supplies and treat patients many times more than their capacity. While the pandemic does not discriminate between social classes, entrenched socioeconomic disparities have meant vastly unequal access to healthcare, leaving the underserved communities with which Pragya works in urgent need of healthcare, economic and other support.

AND PRAGYA’S RESPONSE

Pragya has been delivering critical Covid-19 support in both urban slums and neglected rural areas since early in the pandemic. We have also been preparing communities to mitigate the pandemic- building COVID-awareness, installing hand wash stations in slums, supporting women SHG’s in the manufacture and sale of face masks, training frontline workers in psychosocial counselling (in partnership with NIMHANS, Bangalore), so they can support their... Read More

Pragya has been delivering critical Covid-19 support in both urban slums and neglected rural areas since early in the pandemic. We have also been preparing communities to mitigate the pandemic- building COVID-awareness, installing hand wash stations in slums, supporting women SHG’s in the manufacture and sale of face masks, training frontline workers in psychosocial counselling (in partnership with NIMHANS, Bangalore), so they can support their communities.

As the crisis has taken a severe turn for the worse, we have moved to support local governments who are trying their very best in very trying situations to save people. We are actively sourcing and distributing PPEs to frontline healthcare workers, as well as oximeters, thermal scanners and oxygen concentrators to under-resourced public health facilities. We are serving a large swathe of North India including several districts with burgeoning COVID cases- the towns & cities of Rajasthan, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, and up to Leh at an elevation of 3500 msl.

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Reach out to the families affected in COVID-19 crisis

If you would like to help us in addressing the needs of the healthcare workers as well as vulnerable, poor rural and urban households in India in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, please contact: pragyain@pragya.org
Or Contact us at: 83, Sector-44, Institutional Area, Gurgaon-122003, Haryana, India +91 124 4947000

How can I Help?
  • Prevention of the spread of COVID-19 among the urban and rural poor
  • Supporting health workers and health centres to play their role more effectively and in safety
  • Humanitarian relief and supporting the economic resilience of the rural and urban poor, through the pandemic and after it.
LOCATIONS in India - where Pragya team is responding

COVID-19 Response needs

  • PPEs for health workers - masks, gloves, aprons
  • Medical equipment, Hand sanitizers
  • Re-usable face masks
  • Survival package - Food items & Dignity kits
  • Resilience package - Support for livelihood
  • Oximeter
  • Infrared Thermometer
  • Oxygen Concentrator

 

 

• Pragya team provided support to the Joint Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Gurugram (MCG), NCR by providing facemasks, sanitisers and hand gloves for frontline workers • Pragya team provided facemasks and sanitisers to the Child Development Project Officer (CDPO), Women and Child Development Department, Dungarpur • Pragya team assisted the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) in Leh by providing facemasks, sanitisers and hand gloves for frontline workers • Pragya team provided sanitisers, facemasks and hand gloves for frontline workers to the Child Development Project Office, Salumber, Udaipur

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Healthcare workers in the frontline battling #COVID-19 and poor families affected by the crisis need your generous support. Reach out.

All donations from India would be exempt under section 80-G of Income Tax Act of 1961. Pragya India is a registered charity with FCRA clearance.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

All NDMA and DDMA officials

for your kind guidance;

&

The Hans Foundation, 

Ramboll India Pvt Ltd,

All individual supporters

for your generous donations