By M.A. Siraj A group of Muslim businessmen and social activists in Tumakuru (previously Tumkur) town in Karnataka have turned a building owned by one among them into a 50-bed Covid care centre. It has been named as Salam Covid Care Centre and is administering treatment to 50 to 60 patients every day in the…
For around five years now, Bengaluru-based Syed Gulab and his associates at an NGO called the Roti Charity Trust have been rendering yeoman service by providing free nutritious food to mainly attenders of patients from economically poor families who are undergoing treatment at Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health, NIMHANS, Kidwai hospital, etc., all located…
The United Vision Welfare and Charitable Trust, Mysuru, and MESCO has announced that it has initiated free supply of oxygen cylinders to needy COVID-19 patients. It has urged people in need of oxygen cylinders to call on 7975989229 or mobile numbers 9535831973 and 9845319775.Oxygen cylinders along with technical support will be provided to patients at…
MUMBAI: Several mosques in the city and the suburbs have begun to provide oxygen cylinders to Covid-19 patients and, in turn, take some pressure off the hospitals. The free oxygen comes with kits that can be fitted at home for Covid-19 patients whose oxygen saturation level is low. Initiated by NGO Red Crescent Society of…
Pyare Khan of Nagpur is winning accolades on social media for donating two tankers of medical oxygen. In the last few days Khan has donated 32 tonnes of oxygen worth Rs 10 million or one crore for free to hospitals for covid-19 patients who are gasping for oxygen. “The number of patients in Nagpur has…
Amid reports of shortage of oxygen at several hospitals in parts of India, free oxygen cylinders are being distributed to those in need by some groups. In Mumbai, Muslim volunteers associated with Olive Trust are working round the clock to provide free oxygen to those in need. People are approaching Olive Trust where volunteers are…
A young man in Mumbai sold his prized SUV worth Rs 22 lakh last year to buy oxygen cylinders for the people in his locality. Shahnawaz Sheikh, a resident of Malad, sold his Ford Endeavour SUV to donate oxygen cylinders to hospitals and several corona-infected patients who have been crippled by the oxygen crisis in…
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) President Syed Sadatullah Husaini has called upon its cadre to serve people during the second wave of the pandemic. In an online speech, primarily addressing to JIH members and sympathizers, Mr. Husaini said: “As the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hits us with all its ferocity, I call upon the cadre…
A Unique Community Service and Outreach Model For the last 4 years, an NGO in Kolkata has developed a unique model of community service and outreach in the month of Prophet Muhammad’s birth (Rabiul Awwal). Called ‘Prophet Muhammad Week’, its seven themes emphasise connecting, serving and conveying the Prophet’s message to the people. Conceived in…
NGO – School Collaboration in a Bangalore Slum As you walk through the narrow lanes of Rajendranagara slum, in Koramangala, you may walk past this building and not even notice that it houses a school. The English-medium Greenland Public School was set up in a decade or so ago by an engineering graduate, Ms. Kowser…
