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Donation Listing and Local volunteers in India A listing of donation drives, shelters, helplines, government resources and on the ground volunteers to help navigate the Covid-19 pandemic by covid-relief.in
Relief Efforts in India A list of initiatives to support vulnerable groups (e.g.homeless, trash pickers,migrant workers, etc.) during the COVID-19 pandemic and national lockdown.
Amnesty International Supporting Migrant Workers, Day-Labourers, Urban Poor, Transgender Community, Waste-pickers and Sanitation Workers, Healthcare Workers and Doctors, Animal Care,Older Persons & Children, Other Vulnerable groups.
Community Resources for Vulnerable Sections NGOs/Volunteers providing meals, rations, health kits, shelter and running errands for the vulnerable sections of society, namely, the elderly, daily wage earners, migrant workers, young mothers, health workers and so on.
India Covid Relief A compilation of medical/economic relief efforts and other resources in India
COVID Crisis Corps Ongoing Compilation of various types of data including resource availability (mainly Chennai area)
Youths Against Corona Ongoing Donation Campaign to help provide PPE Kits at major hospitals. Donate here.
Essential Services Data A crowdsourced list of essential service providers (such as free food, police, ambulances, hospitals, mental well being counseling, delivery services, etc.) across the country by covid19india.org. Please submit new entries here.
COVID-FYI A Compilation of doctors on call, government officers, helpline numbers and govt./private labs, etc.
Mental Health Resources Resources to help you get through tough times.
Support communities and helplines These are local Indian groups/NGO’s and informal facebook/ whatsapp/telegram or other relevant online groups.
Emergency Helpline Numbers Official numbers assisting the COVID-19 outbreak
COVID-19 Government / WHO Run Groups and Smartphone apps Official Telegram/Whatsapp groups/apps helping with COVID-19
COVID-19 Government Run Communications Pages These are official resources for state-level and national updates.
COVID-19 India Testing Centers and First Response Hospitals Approved Testing Centers and first response hospitals with their locations/contact number and capacity.
Quarantine Locations These are approved locations where infected patients can be quarantined.
Landlord Communication Template Template to request for a rent reduction during the crisis.
Stores open near you Crowdsourced list of verified stores and services operating in Bangalore during the shutdown
India's crowd-sourced library of regional resources, support groups and COVID-19 related data
This project is modeled based on the Coronavirus Tech Handbook
Serve as a repository of COVID-19 related regional efforts in India and make these efforts easily discoverable and searchable.
Help communities self-organise into viral kindness groups.
Assist in crisis management and response by building simple tools (e.g. Resource Tracker, Help A Stranger)
Fostering partnerships with COVID-19 India efforts (e.g. Economic Vulnerability Tracker, COVIDFYI)
Disclaimer
This website and our viral kindness groups may contain information about medical conditions and treatments. The information is not advice, and should not be treated as such. We bear no responsibility for any decisions or actions taken resulting from information found in these resources, nor do we claim that any of it is complete, true, accurate, up-to-date, or non-misleading. Use and re-use it at your own risk!
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Covid-19 Government Measures Orders/circulars/notifications/notices as issued by the various State and Central Government in relation to COVID-19
Covid-19 Social Security in India This site archives material on relief measures being announced and undertaken by the Union and the state governments in India in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic induced economic distress.
Interventions of states A list of interventions that state governments have announced in response to COVID-19
Legal COVID App A resource to access federal and central resources and regulations related to COVID-19. Also provides a launching point to apply for curfew passes by State.
COVID-19 Awareness material in Indian languages COVID-19 awareness material in multiple regional languages developed by volunteers. Also see this thread and this folder for more data.
MOOC for Coronavirus education in Hindi, English and Gujarati An initiative by Surat Municipal Corp
COVID Gyaan Hub of resources developed by research institutions in India
Debunking Myths and Fighting Fake News surrounding COVID-19 Fighting misinformation in Whatsapp/Facebook and other media platforms in India
Curated Media to better understand COVID-19 Curated articles, videos, podcasts, and documentaries to make sense of the trajectory of COVID-19
Tracking Infections and Quarantines in India Reliable sources with tracking information, infection growth rates and other data
PPE Demand Supply Matching A telegram group for matching demand and supply - for serious participants only.
ICMR Approved List of PPE manufacturers This is a government approved list of mask, sanitizer and glove manufacturers
PPE Kits Status An analysis of availability of PPE and specifications
Supplier catalogue Crowdsourced supplier catalogue by covidindia.org
Ventilator Expander Proposal This task force has a doubler for traditional ventilators with Indian manufacturers and hospitals lined up.
Mechanical ventilation for COVID-19 A 2 hour online course on Mechanical Ventilation from Harvard for medical professionals
ICU Care and Ventilation Strategy webinar by AIIMS
COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application Learn the principles and practice of critical care to treat and care for critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic (Univ. Edinburgh).
Project Step One A program to telescreen symptomatic COVID-19 suspects which is working with many state governments. Currently looking for Doctors to volunteer.
State level estimates of Hospitalization needs in India Estimates by researchers affiliated with CDDEP and Princeton
Collecting playbooks and strategies for volunteers and affected individuals
How to support Daily wagers and small businesses?
Learning from discussions of the Bangalore Changemaker group
This tool by Swasti helps you easily calculate costs related to basic food and essentials per family, which you can then use to raise/mobilise funding. See all tools here.
DIY Ventilators, masks, hand sanitizer and other critical and non-critical supplies for when the resource crunch begins to occur.
Active Volunteering Opportunities
List of open opportunities
Learning how to self-organize and perform common COVID-19 related response tasks. Some resources here are from other COVID-19 affected countries, with references to what works and what doesn’t.
Collaboratives: #covidactioncollab , startupsvscovid.org
An attempt to bring together experts & practitioners from relevant fields and to put together a set of guidelines that will help Civil Society Organizations, to focus their work, amplify efforts and provide support to the sections of society that need it the most by the Azim Premji Foundation.
Call for manufacturers by Govt. of India
Open call for organizations manufacturing or supply of medical items related to use in COVID-19.
A centralized repository of manufacturers, distributors, 3D printing organizations of various medical equipments required to battle out COVID-19. Add yourself here.
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Homegrown initiatives started by covidindiasupport.com volunteers
These are groups created by volunteers at covidindiasupport.com for local communities to assist each other during an extended lockdown/curfew due to COVID-19.
Visit our main Viral Kindness Page!
Read our goals and guidelines for viral kindness groups.
We are currently looking to expand into other regions: Sign up here to start a new viral kindness group in your region.
Read about small successes we are having.
We have built a simple resource tracker for crisis management. This is meant to help match requests by individuals/organisations with volunteers/supplies and to track request status. You can request/ report availability of Remdesivir, oxygen tanks, hospital beds, PPE Kits, tiffin services etc. through filling out a simple form on the tracker: https://airtable.com/shrvRntrU5mvEV0LW . We are in the process of building out a new improved version.
A platform for enabling micro-donations to financially affected demographics like daily wage labourers.
COVID-19 Impact on Hiring in India
Tracker for hiring updates by Indian companies
India Business Immunity Platform
Comprehensive official resource to help businesses and investors get real-time updates on India’s active response to COVID-19
Collection of resources on how to manage COVID-19 and its effects on your organization
Trends tracker during COVID-19
Because why not. Add your entries here.
Indian Creatives Against COVID-19 Creative practitioners stepping up to help efforts to fight COVID-19.
Design Fights COVID Aims to raise funds for those NGOs and non-profits which are working tirelessly but don’t have access to the power of design.
A list of mapping and data curation efforts in India
Neighbourhood Dashboard : Map based view of regional resources and volunteers by Reap Benefit
COVID SOS: Connecting distressed individuals with volunteers.
COVID Maps: Locate local stores that sell essentials
Economic Vulnerability Tracker A platform to enable data driven donations based on the economic vulnerability score of a region
www.khaanachahiye.com : Mapping people who need a meal in Mumbai
BBMP-Food for the needy: Bangalore map of centers distributing food for the needy
Bangalore City Police South Division Map: Essential stores
GHMC - Free food and hospitals with isolation facilities : Hyderabad
Outbreak control map by zones A district level zoning map
Find COVID patient nearest to you in Ahmedabad
Google Maps: Query for food shelters/ night shelters, e.g. “food shelters in agra”, “night shelters in agra”
Bangalore Distress Map Request: Run by Naavu Bhaarateeyaru Bangalore
Region wise datasheets: Karnataka, Pune, Mumbai , Kolkata: Deep regional resources detailing local hospital information, mental health resources and local volunteer availability.
Curated Datasets by Sattva: Helping summarize COVID-19 related resource requests and availability
Check this page for consolidated resources about availabilities of beds in different cities.
The COVID-19 India Handbook Resource Tracker is an initiative to consolidate resources in the wake of the recent crisis. Have an urgent need for a resource? Or a resource you can supply? to enter your details into the table.
To report any inconsistencies or request removals, .
A compilation of initiatives taken by Indian startups to help with the COVID 19 crisis
Useful launch point for getting into the fight.
Help your community find COVID-19 related support resources by creating a simple phone app by following this procedure. Explore the & .
A simple community site creation tool that carries all of the information needed for people in your neighborhood in one place so you’re not struggling to find it from a dozen different websites.
Apps/solutions from Indian hackathons
This is an unvetted collection of potentially useful data mined from Whatsapp/ Telegram/ Facebook/ Twitter, etc. You can volunteer to organize this section and submit content as well, please contact us on slack for permissions.
Consolidated list of COVID-19 related efforts at the institute
Community collected, cleaned and organized COVID-19 India datasets
Initiative to help fast-track promising innovations for pilot deployment, scaling through industry partnership, navigating regulatory pathway and connecting with investors.
Backing India’s best start-up founders and deserving volunteers to combat Covid-19 using existing start-up assets.
A regularly updated spreadsheet for beds availability in Bangalore, has detailed statistics of ICU and Oxygen beds.
Official Delhi Government website tracking bed availability in COVID designated hospitals across Delhi.
A regularly updated spreadsheet for beds availability in Tamil Nadu private hospitals.
Volunteer compiled sheet for beds and food in Delhi
First step: Understand what’s present on the site - go through the various sections and the associated resources.
Improving a section:
There is a lot of data in social channels, facebook groups, whatsapp messages, telegram groups, local newspapers, etc. which gets lost in the forwards, posts and articles.
Find and add yourself to facebook/telegram groups and other sources and gather data based on people's conversations and posts. (e.g. there may be reports of a local effort by an NGO posted as an image in a group). There are good groups too,you just need to look for them. Some of these are groups available in this excel but there are so many more out there. Just observe these groups passively please because some of them are for people doing real on the ground kind of efforts. There’s always new posts/articles, so there’s always work to do!
Proactively dig in these groups and regional newspapers,etc and add data to the page. For instance, if you find a new initiative regarding business, add the link to the business section along with a description.
Note that we are NOT looking for news articles or linkedin posts. We are looking for :
actual projects that people are doing, e.g. covidsos.org
initiatives people are taking, e.g. an indian startup working on a ventilators -> link the actual startup
If someone has a detailed report shared in one of the groups thats not widely available but can be helpful for the rest of the community.
Any regional data that's not infection count related.
Any how-to’s and instructions for solving an issue (e.g how to organize help for daily wage laborers?).
We do best effort vetting for all the resources on this site. Use your judgement before linking a resource.
Adding a new section: Propose your section on the slack along with your document. We are eager to add new sections!
In pipeline: Mental health, docs to download, startups, telemedicine, shopping, etc.
Types of content to add:
We want to be able to compile and showcase all kinds of efforts other people are doing to help combat COVID-19 in India and give them a platform and a voice.
We want to be able to share the learnings of one relief/aid group with another and build a knowledge base which anyone can refer to.
We want to fill gaps in data missing from other platforms - we can and should of course feed this data back to other platforms too, e.g. if you find a new NGO,etc.
We will prioritize India specific resources on this page, global resources are _ok_ but there's a lot of local regional efforts that google misses.
Make this site better.
There are no coding skills necessary to contribute content! This is a community driven project. You can make improvements too! Join our slack and read the pinned messages to get access to edit our pages.
How to make improvements to our content?
Find “India specific”- REGIONAL resources about the novel Coronavirus, add the link/data in one of the relevant subsections/sub documents.
There are already many good sources doing infection tracking in India - please link them as you find them. However, this page is not intended to be another infection tracking mechanism - we want to instead organize local knowledge and efforts to help people easily discover India-specific COVID-19 related information and resources. Time is of the essence and crowdsourcing is the way to scale our development efforts.
This page and project is evolving, don’t hesitate to address any shortcomings you see! We suggest discussing ideas on the slack channel before making major changes.
Note: Please list your source when editing the linked documents. If the source is not verifiable, the entry will be eventually removed.
Add Content: Find and add new relevant content to one of the pages on the handbook.
Modify Content: Find an error? Find an updated resource link/datapoint? Modify the handbook to reflect this.
Suggest Deletions: Find something factually inaccurate or off topic? Suggest the moderators to delete it
Suggest Improvements: Use the slack, be vocal, get your voice heard. We will do our best to address your comments.
Share the page: Invite your friends to the page, share on social media, help get us off the ground!
Add to our datasheet: Find an article or source which can potentially help others? Add it to our database.
We are a diverse group of anonymous volunteers trying to do our part to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in India. Just normal people like yourself. If this inspires you, join our slack group and start helping out!
These are some of the bio’s of our volunteers who signed up:
I'm a 16 year old student and I very much admire your initiative! I miss doing volunteer work and i would love to help in any way I can amidst this COVID- 19 situation. I understand what I'm signing up for and i can ensure you if given the responsibility, I would be giving it my best! Again I very appreciate all your efforts and I'm willing to give it my all.
I am a recent graduate from IIM Udaipur. I want to do my part in spreading awareness about COVID-19. I along with my batchmates working on curating regional content to spread awareness. I am more than happy to help out with this initiative.
I an hospitality professional based out of Hyderabad currently staying in Dharam Karam road ameerpet Age 25, would love volunteer to help in any way I can during this situation of crisis
I've been looking for ways to contribute. Excited about having found your platform. I've been trying to get my friends to roll out an app for crowdsourced contact tracing --> https://github.com/KiotaLabs/antiviral
I am computer professional presently located in roorkee.will love to contribute my bit in this situation.
I'm someone who started small, as a Junior Support Engineer at Tech Mahindra. 1+ years into a Technical role, I was picked up to be trained for customer facing roles in an elite batch of 20. Achievers in Making popularly known as AIM is a program developed to select members from Technical background and train them into customer facing roles. After taking up various roles in Sales and Sales Support, I moved onto #Kash which is a Micro FinTech Startup. Currently heading Operations and Information Technology here.
Middle aged. Working for Government of India
I am Diptarka from India. I am a Software Engineer, but I quit my job in early 2019 and travelled in Latin America for a year. There I took up many volunteering activities along side my travels. I am back in Kolkata, my hometown on January planning for a change in career. I am not working, so most of the time I am free at home (no work from home obligations). I am spreading awareness in my family groups on WhatsApp regarding fake messages in this tough times. I hope I can help the other people in the community as well. I can help set an crowdsourced info regarding food inventory across the city as well.
I am currently in high school. One of my passion is to read. Consequently, it has become a habit of mine to read various articles. With the free time that I possess, I would be glad to help.
Engineer Girl - want to do my bit for the city and those in need
I currently reside in Mandsaur (M.P.)
I am a Qualified Chartered Accountant and a MBA grad. I also possess one year of work experience.
I am an Finance and Accounting professional with a prior experience of working in a start-up environment, wherein I was directly reportable to the Business Head. Was in-charge of managing projects and umpteen inter-departmental co-ordination. Have an experience of moderating WhatsApp groups.
Quite disappointed with the spread of misinformation and the callous attitude displayed by many of us, would like to help tackle this as much as I can. Its all hands on the deck
I am a social worker associated with various NGOs.
I am from Faridabad, NCR Region. I have been to a lot of Model United Nations, and even organised one. When Coronavirus surfaced in China, I wrote an independent article on the situation:(https://theredmegaphone.wixsite.com/theredmegaphone/post/coronavirus---covid-19). I have been active on the r/coronavirus subreddit. I am good with tech and I am quite free right now due to closure of my institute.
Hi I'm from west bengal. I completed my engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and MBA from IIM Kozikode, currently working in Infinite as client partner. I'm mostly staying home and can have some spare time to help in this cause. There are multiple rumors are going around, I would like to help people to get the correct information and fight this virus collectively. I can help in other ways too like contacts..
i observe, think, learn, share.
I am an Indian Origin person living in Canada. Software Engineer by profession, Indian at heart.
I work as an associate consultant in a healthcare related consulting firm, secondary research is an essential element of my assignments.
Researcher with a PhD in computer science, originally from Bangalore working in California
Product manager from bangalore, IIMB grad
BS-MS Student from IISER TVM. DC fan.
Researcher with a PhD in computer science, originally from Kolkata working in California
Postdoctoral scholar in computational structural biology at University of California San Francisco.
An article by Akshata Rao
Of late, a sinking feeling about human behavior has been simmering inside me. The emotion does not stem from the COVID-19 pandemic, notwithstanding the evidence that it has been devastating for many. Mankind has struggled with many disasters in its past. The source of my anguish emanates from the response that we, as a people, have had to these difficult times. That I see more instances of angry, finger-pointing, rabble-rousing conduct instead of a steady, rational and collected response. No battles are ever won by infighting troops.
When times are tough, people look for a simplistic explanation for their misery. It happened to marginalized communities during World War II, when some groups manipulated the society to make them believe the source of all their problems were those who were “different”. It transpired again during the aftermath of India’s partition, with many families suffering on both sides. Those who crave that power without responsibility, use every trick in the book to channel public anger for their own benefit. Suffering, angry people tend to forget that the rabble rouser is shirking their responsibility of bringing about peace and prosperity. While humanity has had its collaborative moments like the Paris agreement to combat climate change, it has also suffered through divisive years during the World Wars. I worried that we may be headed down the dark path this time.
However, in the past few weeks, I have seen a tiny speck of hope grow a little by little each day. It was kindled when I signed up to volunteer for the COVID-19 India Handbook initiative (covidindiasupport.com). The handbook is an assortment of COVID-19 related resources for India, such as testing centers, NGOs, helplines, startups trying to ease the hardships brought by the pandemic. As I began contributing to the handbook, I noticed that most volunteers didn’t know each other at all. The team is infact a variegated patchwork of people who differ in age, gender and backgrounds. While some are working professionals, in fields of biology, information technology, services, government and finance, there are a few more who are high school and college students. There was one thread that connected us all; we wanted to help.
I have seen self-motivated volunteers brainstorm for hours on what resources would the public benefit from. A couple of students offered to build us a website. Another volunteer made us an app. Volunteers meet often to decide how to spread awareness, choose areas to work on and follow up. Some actively moderate ‘viral kindness groups’; community-driven networks across the country to help those around them in need. It has been a humbling lesson in kindness and self-motivation.
Since then, I have learnt that despair, fear and anger have a common cause : the feeling of not having control in our life. Even though life is an amalgamation of moments that we cannot alter, contributing to positive change is a sure bet to allow hope to replace resentment. If we wish to usher in a harmonious future, we must build it ourselves. And as long as there are people willing to work towards that future, I have hope for humanity.
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