Oxygen To Food: Facebook, WhatsApp Groups Offering Help For Covid-19 Care

With the dire situation, India currently is in, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the nation have come together on social media platforms to help people in need in any manner they can.

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Whether it's offering information on the availability of beds, helping out people for making deliveries and food runs for people in-home quarantine and some are even offering free food to families who are affected by the novel coronavirus.

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Here are a few groups on WhatsApp and Facebook that you could follow to either seek help or contribute to help people during these difficult times.

Humankind Global

This public group on Facebook has over 54,900 followers. This group offers to connect individuals who are in need of an essential with people who are willing to offer help.

People can just post on the group what they¡¯re seeking and the members offer help in the form of leads/links that people can follow. This group isn¡¯t location-specific -- anyone across the nation can post and seek help.

Check out the group here: Humankind Global

World Maratha Organisation

World Maratha Organisation is a private group that comprises over 1.6 million users. The group currently is helping individuals seek medical assistance like getting blood, plasma, info on hospital beds etc. The group¡¯s networks are primarily scattered across the state of Maharashtra.

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Check out the group here: World Maratha Organisation

Network Capital

This group is available on both WhatsApp as well as Facebook. Even though it¡¯s a private group, it is allowing people to join in the current times.

Network Capital offers 24x7 support by volunteers from mental health to COVID-19 resources collaboration, COVID-related job support etc. The group functions across metro cities of India as well as members from over 100 cities around the world.

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Gurgaon Helpline and Gurgaon Food Freak

These are two separate groups, provide support in the city of Gurgaon, and are managed by one Pawan Soni.

The groups are private, but anyone can join and ask for help. Gurgaon helpline group has been offering support in finding hospital beds, medicine, plasma, doctors etc. Gurgaon Food Freak on the other hand has home chefs and members providing home-cooked food to people and families suffering from COVID-19.

Check out the group here: Gurgaon Helpline/ Gurgaon Food Freak

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Powai Women Networking

This private group has provided support for a variety of situations -- from medical help to kids/pregnancy-related causes, and recently, the group has been helpful for finding COVID-19 essentials like oxygen, food, donor injection etc.

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While the name of the group is based on a place in the city of Mumbai, the group has helped individuals from across the nation in cities like Delhi, Bangalore, Jaipur, Indore, and even internationally.

Check out the group here: Powai Women Networking