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India COVID Relief Kirtan: Nina & Keli and Friends
Friday, May 7, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
Kirtan is call-and-response chanting of Sanskrit mantras in community.
Watch livestream in these two places:
(1) https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynKirtanCollective
(2) https://www.youtube.com/NinaRaoChant
On May 7 we will come together to chant and raise funds to go directly to COVID Relief:
Keli Lalita and Nina Rao
Arjun Bruggeman
Krishna Das
By donation via PayPal to <chant@chantkirtan.com> or Vemno <Nina-Lina-Rao>. All funds received will be sent by direct transfer to India on May 12.
We will contribute all donations raised toward a specific project for the underserved in Delhi with an admin cost of under 5% ensuring most amount of donations go to help those in need.
Nina’s long-time friend in India and veteran of NGOs is closely associated with and monitoring this specific project for authenticity of work. All donations go directly into the delivery of oxygen and creation and provision of make-shift COVID hospital units. There is no intermediary fund collection platform. As an indicator of the type of funds needed in India please know that one oxygen concentrator costs $1800.
You may send your contributions via PayPal <chant@chantkirtan.com> or Venmo <Nina-Lina-Rao> and I will wire all the funds to the LifeTree organization on Wed May 12th, 2021. Please note these are NOT tax-deductible contributions in the USA.
Some of the other organizations you can donate to directly are:
HemkuntFoundation.com
CareIndia.org
GiveIndia.org
GoDharmic.com
https://indianredcross.org/ircs/COVID-19
https://southasia.berkeley.edu/covid-19
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/heres-how-help-india…/
CareIndia.org
GiveIndia.org
GoDharmic.com
https://indianredcross.org/ircs/COVID-19
https://southasia.berkeley.edu/covid-19
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/heres-how-help-india…/
The Association for India’s Development Fund
https://aidindia.org/donate/covid-relief-fund/
https://aidindia.org/donate/covid-relief-fund/
Mission Oxygen, Ketto, a fund-raising platform in Mumbai, is shepherding a campaign by hundreds of entrepreneurs to purchase 3,000 oxygen concentrators. (The organizers are tweeting live updates https://twitter.com/india_oxygen)
