Some of these can be done without leaving your couch As the coronavirus spread continues in India, we are grappling with uncertainty and adapting to a newer way of life staying at home. The long weeks without stepping out might have induced a sense of helplessness about the situation at hand. Don’t despair! Though it…
It was 20 years ago today that India got its first online donation platform. TWENTY years of existence is an important milestone in the life of any organisation – so yes, we had started planning how to mark it, celebrate it and thank all our loyal supporters. But all of that took a backseat around…
EVERY rupee you donate will reach the beneficiary via GiveIndia. Here’s how. We started the Corona relief missions on March 22, to raise money to feed the hungry and provide prevention kits for the most vulnerable which includes the daily wagers and stranded migrant labourers who lost their livelihood due to the lockdown. In addition…
WE have all got used to supermarkets and online stores selling products labelled ‘two for the price of one’ or ‘buy one get one free’. In the same way, in the philanthropic world supporters of a nonprofit or a cause are rewarded for their compassion and generosity when their donations are “matched” or doubled. In…
In response to urgent needs of cash-strapped families on the ground, on March 22, 2020, we launched the “Support COVID-19 hit families” mission to provide direct-benefit-transfer as financial assistance to daily wagers and migrant labourers who had lost their jobs due to the COVID lockdown. Thanks to the generous support of over 7900 donors, we…
As a child, I had imagined multiple times about a global disaster or a war that would take over the world, how I would emerge as a heroine and save the planet! The reality of what we are facing now is nowhere close to what I had in my head. Neither am I individually capable…
While the Coronavirus outbreak has impacted our healthcare infrastructure, the imperative lockdown to prevent the contagion has had a deep-rooted impact on the country’s socio-economic conditions. To alleviate the suffering of those most vulnerable, the Government of India has made an essential intervention first by announcing a package of ₹1.7lakh crore and then by launching…
COVID-19 has imprisoned us – our todays are all about the lockdown, shutdown and slowdown. We are the privileged minority; our homes stuffed with essentials for the lockdown, our friend the internet aiding our social distancing, our reserves equipped for emergencies. Outside the boundaries of our quarantined fort, lies the battlefield where the underprivileged fights…
NOT since the Second World War has the global population faced an emergency on the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are all at war with a new virus, a common enemy which has already killed more than 13,000 people – and the toll is rising rapidly. Governments, scientists, health workers, pharmaceutical companies and everyone…
With COVID-19 (Coronavirus) being declared a global pandemic, we are taking all precautionary measures to stop the virus from spreading. Along with safeguarding and sanitising our environment, we at GiveIndia have joined hands with our NGO partners who are trying to protect the underprivileged from this deadly flu. Here’s a list of the NGOs who…