“We are inspired because 1,043 people from 10 nations have supported our project,” tabla!, a Singapore weekly on the Indian community, quoted Mazumdar as saying.
The husband and wife duo are working with Swasth Hindustan Mission in Bengaluru and Mission Oxygen in Mumbai to distribute the concentrators.
Also, a group of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), National University of Singapore and Singapore Management University alumni, have also taken to Milaap to raise funds and help India overcome the oxygen shortage.
About a dozen of them banded under Singapore Universities’ Mission Oxygen (SUMO) and spread across Singapore, the Philippines and India are using their varied expertise to manage the end-to-end process – from procurement to logistics and deployment in towns and villages, according to tabla!.
“About 600 people from all over the world have contributed and we have raised about USD100,000. We are now buying oxygen concentrators,” Rahul Singh, a bank employee and NTU 2010 graduate, told the weekly.
These concentrators will be given to Community Empowerment Lab and Mercy Mission for distribution at the ground level in Uttar Pradesh and Bengaluru.
Indian expats Rohit Dwivedi, Gaurav Mishra and Seema Devgan have raised SGD 100,000 (USD 75,058) from the people in Singapore, the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, Australia and Hong Kong.
The trio is working with NGO Delhi Youth Welfare Association to distribute essential medical equipment in India.
Likewise, the Singapore Gujarati Society President Biren Desai’s family trust, Yamuna Pulin, has ordered 50 oxygen machines from China which will be sent to India over the next two weeks, according to tabla!
Caritas Humanitarian Aid and Relief Initiatives Singapore (CHARIS), the fund raising body for overseas humanitarian aid of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Singapore, are also raising funds to support India fight the COVID-19 crisis.
“We are now focused on working with our partner organisations to judiciously and effectively deploy the funds,” said Linus Ng, executive director of CHARIS.
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