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DesignUp 🔥 Issue #98 > Covid Resources: Give and get help + OpenHour
This is an out-of-turn issue! Given the devastating Covid 2nd Wave that India is going through 💔 it made sense to rush and bring you something useful and actionable. Now.
This is that one consolidated list of where 🤞you can get help (tools/dashboards for plasma, oxygen, beds) as well places 🤝 you can give help (volunteer time, donate money). In these times of "self-reliance", we are sure the community will rise and contribute generously! 👇 We've also compiled a list of causes that are for marginalized communities, needs urgent help and not well publicized or funded.
👋 DesignUp has also launching OpenHour in a beta mode - a bi-weekly open small group conversation format. Given the outrage, grief, anxiety, anger and helplessness - we thought of providing a platform where the community could get together, discuss, share, support and listen. More details below.
Let's start with the list of lists 👇
🧯 List of Lists: Oxygen, Food, Hospital, Beds & More
The Indian start-up community is coming together to create a list of some key fundraisers as well as tools. Super useful if you're short on time and need to focus on a few.
The most diverse and extensive list, "this document is maintained by an informal group as a way of curating opportunities to support COVID-related mutual aid work in India." From Kashmir to Kanchipuram, vulnerable sections like disabled women to kids - this list is very varied...
A clearly classified set of fundraisers, including state Governments - but importantly it has a neat set of plasma donation links
🛠 Tools & Dashboards
Covid relief resources like hospital beds, oxygen, remdesivir, etc. aggregated from multiple sources - keep it on your phone!
View availability of beds, ventilators and other critical Covid infrastructure on a map so you can find one closest to you.
Like CovidTools, this too is a "crowdsourced resources to fight COVID across India. Find oxygen, plasma, hospital beds and more." The site claims to verify listings...
A searchable-by-location dashboard of updated info on beds, oxygen, plasma and more. Bookmark this!
🤚 Volunteers needed
Some of the top startup entrepreneurs and medical associations of India came together as a group to form Project StepOne, to help India manage and solve the COVID 19 pandemic. Volunteers needed across Products, Ops, Data Sciences and more...
Volunteers to help Delhi Govt. manage the process of Covid treatment. Are you available to devote 2-3 hours of your time from 5pm-10pm daily for 30 days?
🧯 Corporate
Zomato's Feeding India program is providing hospitals and patients with oxygen and related supplies. Help us save thousands of lives.
Let's join hands to provide oxygen to people affected by COVID-19. Support Oxygen for India Initiative by Paytm Foundation
🧿 Some underfunded, lesser-known fundraisers
Our agenda is to mobilise funds to support the mental health needs of COVID-19 frontline workers and relief volunteers by providing free support groups, therapy and access to a helpline to them. We need the funds to pay mental health professionals and build infrastructure
HelpAge India is reaching out to the elders, homeless and migrant workers who are facing their toughest time right now. In our first phase of work, we raised awareness about Covid 19, both in urban & rural areas before the lockdown even started, through our Mobile Healthcare Units & Helpline services.
We hope to give dry rations to about 1000 community members living in the regions of Chengalpattu and Kanchipuram. This will be carried out through our very own transgender community volunteers themselves.
For the last two weeks, a team of young volunteers from Goa Emergency Relief have been working towards providing relief for Covid positive people in Goa - through food, medicines, finding hospitals, testing, oxygen, etc.
💬 Join the Open Hour
A lot of anxiety, anger, frustration, helplessness circulating in the Design/Product/tech tribes that we are close to. We can do little to address the root causes - but we can help people connect, have conversations, offer support or just simply listen.
OpenHour allows small group conversations between 5-7 people. No panels, no experts, no speakers, no themes. Just small groups to share what’s on your mind. Unburden, listen, speak. Register via http://bit.ly/ZeOpenHr Every Wed/Sat // Beta mode
📬 Contributed by the community
Here are some resources that are being sent to us by readers. If you come across any useful and verified resources, do share them with @soosixty or @jdallcaps!
Updated and verified by the Zoice team, to the best of our abilities. Updates will be posted regularly.
COVID-19 Resources App for Bengaluru - Oxygen, Ambulances, Blood banks and more.
Help your users discover government-approved Vaccination Centres across India during this pandemic. - MapmyIndia/mapmyindia-nearby-covid-places
COVIDSOS - Find urgent, latest, relevant emergency COVID-19 resources like ICU, Home ICU, Beds, Ventilator, Oxygen, Oxygen Cylinder, Oxygen concentrator, Plasma, Medicine, Ambulance, Food, Vaccination posted by users on Twitter for all cities and states in India (Pan India)
Collated list of all helpline numbers and verified list of all India resources.
⏳ Our time for your contribution
@jdallcaps is taking the lead from @baboonzero and joining a bunch of product/design folks who are contributing their time and expertise against donations for Covid relief. Get in touch with them on Twitter - here and here
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Whereas this list goes out to mailboxes - the newsletter would remain on the server and continue to be updated. So if you have more resources, share with us. And stay safe, get your vaccine and remember if you're wearing cloth masks - double up.
🖖 See you soon
JD and Soo
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