Mission Oxygen: Group Of Start-Up Founders Unite To Crowdfund Oxygen For COVID Patients
Democracy People Foundation started a self-funded mission called 'Mission Oxygen' to help hospitals across the country get immediate access to oxygen concentrators. The foundation assumed a requirement of 100 pieces that they could manage. However, within a few hours, the foundation received the request for over 3000 oxygen concentrators.
At a time when hospitals in Delhi are quite literally on their knees and crying out for help to get medical oxygen to keep their COVID-19 patients alive, a group of entrepreneurs is leading a crowdfunding effort to become a helping hand, during these tough times.
Democracy People Foundation started a self-funded mission called 'Mission Oxygen' to help hospitals across the country get immediate access to oxygen concentrators.
Ketto
The foundation assumed a requirement of 100 pieces that they could manage. However, within a few hours, the foundation received the request for over 3000 oxygen concentrators.
Ketto
As the demand grew, the NGO has now launched a crowdfunding initiative on Ketto with an aim to raise Rs 5 crore for the cause.
For anyone that wants to help, Mission oxygen is a campaign that is raising money to provide oxygen cylinders and concentrators to hospitals around the country. Donate, share, retweet. EVERY contribution is IMPORTANT.
¡ª Kunal Kapoor (@kapoorkkunal) April 24, 2021
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"We have managed to procure 500 concentrators from China, which will be shipped on Monday for India and we will be able to supply them to the hospitals earliest by Wednesday. Initially we self-funded approximately 50 Lacs for this initiative and placed an order for 100 concentrators. However, to process the order for the remaining 400 concentrators by Monday we need another Rs 2.5 Crore and we decided to embrace the power of the crowd and started a fundraiser on Ketto.org," said Rahul Aggarwal, Founder Democracy People Foundation, while commenting on the fundraiser.
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