COVID-19 Response

GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance Friends Fund: A major distributor of COVID-19 vaccines internationally, GAVI’s COVAX program aims to provide 1.8 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to the 92 of the world’s lowest-income countries in 2021 and early 2022. The only program of its kind, COVAX  allocates vaccines at a global level according to WHO guidance on most vulnerable populations (i.e. healthcare workers, then elderly populations, etc) as part of a worldwide effort to halt the spread of the pandemic.

Habitat for Humanity International: Habitat is responding to the joint public health and economic crisis of the COVID pandemic, serving communities we have helped build and those who are struggling or at greater risk of exposure to the virus due to lack of access to safe, decent shelter. As the virus has spread in secondary and tertiary waves in the South Asia region, Habitat and community partners are responding to meet immediate needs including food, hygiene supplies, WASH/handwashing facilities, livelihoods support, and shelter improvements  The attached slides outline the response strategies and modalities (e.g. conditional cash transfers) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, focusing on marginalized communities and urban slum developments. 

Médecins Sans Frontières: Providing testing, treatment, and isolation conditions to marginalized and vulnerable parts of the population. Responding in France, Italy, Belgium, Iran, Afghanistan, and Greece.

International Medical Corps: Working with the WHO to leverage its relationships with local and national ministries of health in more than 30 countries to provide expertise, equipment, training, and triage and treatment services.

Direct Relief International: In the US, Direct Relief is delivering protective masks—along with exam gloves and isolation gowns—to health care organizations in areas with confirmed COVID-19 cases. In China, Direct Relief has delivered via FedEx more than 30,000 pounds of protective gear—nearly 800,000 N95 and surgical masks, more than 400,000 gloves, and numerous coveralls, face shields, and shoe covers—to frontline health workers. Direct Relief is also staging personal protective equipment with regional response agencies across the world, including in the Caribbean and South America through the Pan American Health Organization.

International Organization for Migration: Combating misinformation, xenophobia and stigmatization through informational campaigns; increasing access to water and hygiene measures to vulnerable populations; enhancing health surveillance services and medical screenings at border entry points; providing medical supplies and accurate information to at-risk communities; strengthening cross-border coordination to minimize the risk of contagion; and providing capacity building and trainings to governments.

Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc: Following our response in China, Project HOPE has expanded our strategy globally. We are providing healthcare workers with a COVID-19 specific training program, procuring critical protective and lifesaving equipment, and providing surge staffing support to increase medical capacity in select regions.

Save the Children - Organisation für die Rechte der Kinder Suisse: Supporting handwashing (distributing soap, hand sanitisers and other critical hygiene supplies), healthcare and mental health services (pre-positioning extra essential supplies), education (preparing tools for caregivers and child friendly spaces), identification and monitoring of vulnerable households and working to provide extra support, and preparing refugee camps by distributing hygiene kits and informing communities and health workers.

UNICEF - Switzerland: Providing medical supplies and PPE, educating public about best hygiene practices, maintaining healthcare access for vulnerable populations for non-outbreak related issues, despite reduced capacity caused by outbreak, maintaining education and social services for vulnerable populations, providing economic support for vulnerable populations, and researching nature of secondary impacts (Impacts other than people getting sick from Covid-19, e.g. economic hardship from lockdowns, reduced healthcare capacity for other issues, mental health issues from isolation).

United Nations Foundation: Supporting immediate global efforts to ensure patients get the care they need and frontline health workers get essential supplies and information to respond. Working with the WHO to gather critical data about the virus itself and its spread as well as guide and coordinate scientists around the world to rapidly develop potential treatments, diagnostic tests, and a vaccine.

LifeNet International: Preparing health facility partners (220 facilities) to prevent, diagnose, and treat coronavirus.  Also helping to prepare facilities to educate their vulnerable communities. Programs implemented in Uganda, DRC, Malawi, Burundi, and Kenya.

International Committee of the Red Cross: Overseeing relief efforts across the developing world, primarily in conflict zones.  Providing healthcare in Syria, Lebanon, Mali, South Sudan, Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Emergency USA: EMERGENCY USA is supporting EMERGENCY ONG ONLUS work in Italy as well as preparing for a response to prevent the virus from spreading and to protect patients and health workers from COVID-19 in Afghanistan, northern Iraq, Sierra Leone and Sudan.

Open Education Resource Foundation: To minimise the impact of COVID-19, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and the OERu are joining forces with the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) and the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) to support education institutions around the world transitioning to online learning using open educational resources (OER).

Friends-International: Providing immediate life-saving support (food, hygiene materials etc.) and protection for children and families; adapting our services to continue to offer protection and reintegration services in this new context, and preparing for the long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts, including through employment support and job placement for those who have lost their livelihoods.  Friends-International operates within Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Switzerland.

Flexport.org: Tackling one of the biggest challenges of global COVID-19 relief efforts: transportation. Donations cover the cost of shipments for response organizations to ensure logistics is never the blocker for delivering aid.

Care Canada: Providing hygiene supplies, food, and public health education in developing countries.

American Friends of Un Techo Para Mi Pais Inc: TECHO launched The Empathy Pact: a global movement bringing together the world's leading brands committed to supporting vulnerable families impacted by COVID-19 across Latin America and the Caribbean. For the duration of the crisis, TECHO teams are distributing emergency kits containing food and hygiene products to vulnerable families in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The Empathy Pact platform allows multiple stakeholders (employees, customers, etc.) to join the initiative and work together to help scale its impact.

Infancia Solidaria: 1- We have bought 5000 masks for the humblest families in Ethiopia 2-We have bought 5000 masks for the humblest families in Kenya 3- We have bought basic food products for 100 Spanish families in a situation of economic vulnerability due to the coronavirus crisis.

Friedensdorf International: Friedensdorf International aims to provide aid to the innocent victims of war and crises in the world, by making medical treatment accessible especially for children in Central Asia and Africa. In our project country Cambodia we are supporting waste picker families and their children with food supplies (rice, flour etc.) and soap. Because of COVID-19 the families are not able to work and sell the waste they are collecting. Their children normally go to a kindergarten project (that we are supporting) where they receive education, regular meals and have the possibility to use showers etc. The kindergarten is closed at the moment but the families can use the showers and the children also get homework so that they can learn at home.

European Food Banks Federation: Representing 430 Food Banks in 29 European countries, which are committed to prevent food waste and provide food to 45,283 charities and 9.5 million most deprived people. Due to COVID-19 for the last 3 months European Food Banks have faced several challenges with a 50% increase of food demand and have doubled the amount of food redistributed, in comparison with 2019 levels. The European Food Banks Federation is supporting its members to respond to this food emergency and meet the costs or financial obligations to address these increasing needs.

Christina Noble Children’s Foundation: Active in Vietnam and Mongolia. Distributing emergency care packages of food, water, medicines and hygiene kits to vulnerable and at high risk poor communities in urban, provincial and remote areas. Providing home-school education and psychosocial support to children from disadvantaged communities who are at high-risk of dropping out of school altogether and who remain vulnerable to exploitation, abuse and trafficking. Rebuilding Lives Campaign: Providing financial assistance and psychosocial support to poor communities who have altogether lost their livelihood.

Room to Read: Active in Cambodia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and India. Customizing Literacy Program for distance learning as an essential lifeline to the world's most vulnerable children. Facilitating learning across the digital divide by providing support via channels most accessible to low-income children, including telephone, radio and TV broadcasts, text messaging and the distribution of hard copies of educational materials. For those with digital access, uploading storybook content in over 40 languages to Literacy Cloud platform.

AMREF Health Africa Italy: AMREF today operates in Italy and in 35 countries in the south of the Sahara with 160 projects to promote health, provide medical assistance to the local populations in both health centres and mobile units, including training of midwives and health personnel. Donations will support the remote training of 1000 health care workers responding to COVID-19 and purchase PPE supplies.

Sesame Workshop: In response to the unprecedented challenges facing young children and caregivers, Sesame Workshop’s  Caring for Each Other initiative is a commitment to support families around the world throughout the COVID-19 health crisis with a broad variety of critical multimedia resources to support families in providing comfort and managing anxiety as well as creating routines, fostering playful learning at home, and staying physically and mentally healthy. As the pandemic continues and families adjust to a new normal with ongoing educational, social and physical disruption, additional resources are needed to continue to provide comfort to vulnerable children and families during these difficult times.

The Polish Center for International Aid (PCPM): The Polish Center for International Aid (PCPM) is the largest polish secular non-governmental organization, in terms of its annual cash flow and number of field-based missions, providing foreign humanitarian and development assistance in Lebanon, Iraq, Kenya, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Palestine among others.PCPM  operates a rapid response emergency medical team classified as Type 1 EMT by the WHO. Poland Emergency Medical Team can be deployed within 24 hours to provide medical care for victims of natural disasters or humanitarian emergencies. The Team, taking an active role in the global fight against COVID-19, was already deployed to Italy, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan which makes it one of the most experienced emergency medical teams around the world. pcpm.org.pl/en

Afghanistan Women Council: Grant funds will be used to pay teachers and purchase teaching materials for training on literacy and life skills. This grant will be given to the women as loans under the microfinance program to improve sustainable businesses during COVID-19.

Conciencia: Providing families with food aid and hygiene supplies.

Red Argentina de Bancos de Alimentos: Purchase of food and hygiene products so that food reaches those who need it most and ensure the functioning of Food Banks in Argentina.

Australian Red Cross: Daily phone calls to people who are self-isolating across NSW, QLD and VIC,  providing door to door transport services to assist people in attending non-urgent medical appointments, continuing to help people seeking asylum to make ends meet, and share practical information to help people prepare for self-isolation and maintain their emotional wellbeing and social connection.

University of Queensland: Research to develop a vaccine against the novel coronavirus.

Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital Foundation: Vital medical research and clinical trials as well as  hospital equipment and hospital staff support.

St Vincent's Hospital (Melbourne): Critical medical equipment items to ensure staff can treat patients.  For example, new beds, specialist intensive care beds, video laryngoscope, patient monitoring systems, etc. The hospital also requires additional specialist infection control nurses and has set up a Fever Clinic to test and treat up to 600 patients per day.

UNICEF Australia: Providing urgently needed medical supplies, supporting countries with weak health systems, and ensuring children and families have access to accurate information so they can protect themselves and prevent ongoing transmissions.

The Salvation Army Australia: Adapting its social services programs as Australians face an extended period of challenge and hardship during the battle against the Coronavirus. Essential services include aged care, homelessness services, family violence services, and strategic emergency disaster management.

Foodbank Australia: Ensuring equity of access to food relief across the entire community by providing food relief through a network of 2,400 charities across Australia.

OXFAM Australia: Oxfam country teams are providing support to vulnerable communities in many places around the world including awareness and education campaigns and the provision of hygiene equipment.

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre: The ability for people seeking asylum to survive in the community during the COVID-19 pandemic is seriously under threat right now. For those with no income or Government support, the ASRC is their only lifeline in this crisis, providing emergency food, shelter and access to medicine and medical care.

St Vincent de Paul NSW: Working to combat social isolation, continue care for beneficiaries (many of which are elderly or in vulnerable populations), and provide sanitisers and appropriate personal protective equipment including face masks to those in need.

St Vincent de Paul VIC: Working to combat social isolation, continue care for beneficiaries (many of which are elderly or in vulnerable populations), and provide sanitisers and appropriate personal protective equipment including face masks to those in need.

St Vincent de Paul QLD: Working to combat social isolation, continue care for beneficiaries (many of which are elderly or in vulnerable populations), and provide sanitisers and appropriate personal protective equipment including face masks to those in need.

St Vincent de Paul SA: Working to combat social isolation, continue care for beneficiaries (many of which are elderly or in vulnerable populations), and provide sanitisers and appropriate personal protective equipment including face masks to those in need.

St Vincent de Paul WA: Working to combat social isolation, continue care for beneficiaries (many of which are elderly or in vulnerable populations), and provide sanitisers and appropriate personal protective equipment including face masks to those in need.

St Vincent de Paul TAS (ABN 41003138898): Working to combat social isolation, continue care for beneficiaries (many of which are elderly or in vulnerable populations), and provide sanitisers and appropriate personal protective equipment including face masks to those in need.

Black Dog Institute: The Institute will continue to work closely with the government and provide advice on up-to-date evidence and specific evidence-based mental health intervention that are needed in the short and long term. Black Dog Institute is investigating this through an online study to understand how COVID-19 is impacting the mental health of Australian adults, and to discover what people are doing to stay mentally healthy during this time.  The Institute also runs an online clinic as a starting point for assessment and recommendations for a care pathway.

Lifeline Australia: Providing all Australians experiencing a personal crisis with access to 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention services.  Lifeline telephone, text and webchat services will continue as normal throughout the COVID-19 crisis.

Reachout: One of Australia’s leading online mental health organisations for young people and their parents. Practical support, tools and tips to help young people and their parents. Particular resources curated due to the impact of CoVID-19 on mental health.

R U OK?: Helping to build meaningful connections with people and support anyone struggling with life. Mental health support and sucicide prevention during this challenging time.

NSW Meals on Wheels Association: Providing food assistance to those in immediate need.

QLD Meals on Wheels Services Association Inc: Providing food assistance to those in immediate need.

OzHarvest: Food rescue and delivery to those in immediate need.

Second Bite: Food and groceries to help Australians who are facing hardship as a result of the Coronavirus.

Mission Australia: Essential services, including aged care and homelessness services, during the current circumstances.

Exodus Foundation: Serving takeaway hot meals to the hungry.  Also, providing food parcels to the poor, and counsellors and health professionals care for each guest.

World Relief Australia: Seeking to empower people to grow their own food in simple and sustainable ways during this difficult time. These programs will increase access to a constant supply of nutritious food, particularly important for vulnerable groups in the community including pregnant women and children.

Foodbank NSW & ACT: Our strategic plan identifies four focus areas, including food supply. The action plan for food supply includes identifying and implementing ideas for improving the quality and supply of food and investing in key staple products. Funds will purchase key staple products - the basic food and grocery items that our charities ask us to always have in stock. The list of key staples contains about 60 food items, including fruit and vegetables, dairy, eggs, various meats, bread, rice and pasta. We are working to expand the number of these for which we maintain stock.

European Food Banks Federation: Alleviating food insecurity during the COVID-19 crisis and meeting costs or financial obligations that may occur to address the social emergency in the near future.

Belgium Red Cross: Providing essential, consumable materials for volunteers/medical staff such as disinfectant spray, mouth masks, and care gloves.  Working with crisis volunteers for assistance in daily tasks and logistics, such as distributing mails and helping elderly people with their video calls with their relatives. Also, running a hotline to provide assistance to people struggling during the crisis.

BCause Foundation: Supporting hospitals and medical workers and NGOs working on the front line in Bulgaria.  Buying protective gear, respirators, equipment, and additional supplies.

Instituto de Medicina Integral Professor Fernando Figueira: Operating a hospital for low income populations that both provides treatment to those affected and researches the disease.

Emergency Fundo at IDIS (Institute for the Development of Social Investment): Created by a group of civil society leaders committed to social investment, the Fund has two main objectives: to mobilize the philanthropic community / Brazilian society to donate to strengthen the public health system in Brazil and to create a fast, easy and reliable channel to bring financial resources to public hospitals and science and technology institutions that are at the forefront of the fight against Coronavirus.

Rede De Desenvolvimento Humano: Since the beginning of the pandemic, REDEH has built solidarity networks in territories where it operates, supporting women and their families with food baskets, hygiene products, access to water, information material, masks, psychological support, internet support, among others.

UNIBES:  During this very difficult period, Unibes has been assisting approximately 8,500 families who live on the outskirts of the city of São Paulo in social vulnerability on a monthly basis. By distributing donations consisting of baskets of non-perishable items, kits with hygiene and cleaning products as well as protective masks and hand sanitizers as well as providing social services, Unibes is fulfilling its main objective of protecting its beneficiaries.

Associacao Alianca Empreendedora: Supporting more than 10,000 microentrepreneurs in low-income communities, by providing online orientation to improve their business strategies during the pandemic, connecting them with mentors and providing consultancy to companies and governments in order to develop more effective projects to support micro businesses around the country.

The Mississauga Food Bank: Supplying food aid to those families experiencing shortages as a result of the economic hardship and shortages caused by the outbreak.

Médecins Sans Frontières Canada: Part of global MSF response. Providing testing, treatment, and isolation conditions to marginalized and vulnerable parts of the population.

Second Harvest Food Support Committee: Providing food to marginalized populations and coordinating hunger relief efforts from multiple organizations across Canada.

The Food Bank Of Waterloo Region: Providing hunger relief and helping people acquire adequate food supply to undergo self isolation if need be.

Canadian Red Cross Society: Providing financial support for those hit by economic crisis, mental health support for those struggling with anxiety and isolation, relief supplies, and information about the outbreak for the general public.

Les Banques alimentaires du Québec: Front line service (food aid) to provide food to vulnerable people.

Food Banks Canada: Serving the population via a network of 600 food banks.

Care Canada: CARE works in 100 countries and since the start of the pandemic we have been providing emergency response to isolated and hard to reach areas around the world. Our work is based on our past experience addressing health epidemics like cholera, Ebola and Zika. Our current largest pandemic response is in India where we are setting up health centres, providing oxygen and other medical supplies, training health care workers and helping with vaccine distribution. All over the developing world where we work, we are educating the public, training health workers and providing clean water, sanitation and hygiene products/resources as well as psycho-social support and economic support for those who have lost their livelihoods.

House of Lazarus Matilda Resource Centre Inc:Supplying food to those in need in our rural area, delivering when necessary. Working with local schools to deliver a weekly supply of food to students in need.

Sussex Sharing Club: Many families are out of work or very reduced hours and are unable to provide food due to COVID-19. Children are home and they no longer receive lunches at school. Seniors are unable to purchase food or obtain a drive to do so. These low income homes are in great need of food. This is what we try to see that no one goes hungry and provides delivery for those with no transportation.

Pancreatic Cancer Canada: Pancreatic Cancer Canada is providing our Peer Support Program and Ask an Expert Program to pancreatic cancer patients and their caregivers who are in need of practical and emotional support. During this time of self-isolation, it is still especially important for them to access the services they need. The most expressed concerns by our patients have been appointments and procedures being delayed which causes anxiety, inability to visit loved ones, and increased uncertainty. Our services fill this gap and help in increasing the survival rates for pancreatic cancer patients.

Share the Warmth: Since the beginning of the pandemic, Share the Warmth distributes emergency food boxes to individuals, including children and families, and new members who have never used our services before. Over half of the content of a box is made up of fresh products such as fruits and vegetables, dairy products, milk, eggs and fresh bread. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have seen an increase in demand and we have switched our service to home deliveries. We make on average between 200 and 300 deliveries per week.    Our goal is to ensure that every member of the community, whether it is a low-income family or individual, a senior who is afraid to leave the house, or a person at higher risk, has access to the healthy food they need to nourish themselves and their families.

KidSafe Project Society: In partnership with the Vancouver School Board, we extended our spring break program at four sites throughout Vancouver, running 13 weeks of emergency programs. In this time, we were able to provide nutrition, safety and engagement for our kids who were most in need of a safe space to spend their days. In addition to fun on-site activities, we worked with them to stay as caught up with their homework as possible, trying to ensure that they would not fall further behind by the time school was back in. Over the first six months of the pandemic we amalgamated our Spring and Summer programs and were able to provide 115 days of on-site care for hundreds of children that had nowhere else to turn. We served over 75,000 meals and snacks to our kids and sent home over 4,000 bags full of fresh groceries and essential supplies with their caregivers. We have been able to extend our food security program outside of break times to continue throughout the year. Each week, families in need receive fresh produce, dairy, pantry items, and grocery vouchers. The introduction of our afterschool program. With increasing demands for a safe place for kids to go we designed and implemented our afterschool program to offer care and support to our KidSafe kids during the week.

Tulia's Giving Fund (Fundación Maach Den de Bogotá): Maach Den Foundation is providing food and essential supplies (diapers and cleaning products) for the community during the pandemic. All contributions to Tulia’s Giving Fund are directed to Fundación Maach Den de Bogota.

Fundación Hogar de Esperanza: Continued medical support for patients with chronic illness, and financial assistance to purchase food and basic necessities for patients who are unable to work due to lockdown and their families. Populations receiving aid during the crisis also include young mothers with children, the elderly, and young men and women who were living on the streets.

Ecuador Future Fund: Supporting the most vulnerable populations in the Central Andes, periphery of Quito and Amazon regions with food items and cash transfers, and thereby finance their social distancing (target: 150,000 people).  Supplying Personal Protection Equipment to healthcare providers and serological tests/TR-PCR for testing centers. Establishing and supporting the Ecuadorian Red Cross to manage Triage Centers for patients requiring  preliminary evaluation, and thereby alleviating the strain on public hospitals. Supplying equipment to the main hospitals in Guayaquil. This is an Area of Interest Fund at CAF America and grantees will be validated before grants are disbursed.

Egyptian Food Bank: The deterioration of the economic status due to COVID-19 has affected a large number of employees and workers, especially day labor, whose daily pattern was and will be negatively affected more than any other criteria of workers. Providing 19,625 families with food packs. These food boxes will be delivered to the needy during the coming two to three weeks.

Médecins Sans Frontières: Setting up activities to help detect and manage COVID-19 cases among the most vulnerable populations in Paris and the surrounding region.

Association Nationale de Developpement des Epiceries Solidaires (ANDES): ANDES develops innovative solutions to contribute to a sustained integration of people in precarious situations around the access to quality food for all. Our main objectives are: 1. Make sure that people in precarious situations can have access to a diversified and quality food. 2. Coordinate and develop the network of social grocery stores. Support the employees and volunteers and help them professionalize their approach. 3. Contribute to the professional and social reintegration of long-term unemployed people. 4. Contribute to reduce food waste.

Deutsches Rotes Kreuz e.V.: Deutsches Rotes Kreuz e.V., also known as the German Red Cross, has launched a Corona Emergency Relief Fund to ensure continuous help for all people in need. Donations will support coronavirus test samples, caring for those affected and relieving the strain on the clinics, supporting the elderly and particularly vulnerable people who cannot leave their homes, organizing neighbourhood help, delivering meals and food packages, looking after children who would otherwise not have any care, nursing, listening and giving advice to people.

Bo Charity Foundation (Food Angel): Food rescue and assistance program for the elderly and low-income families.

OXFAM Hong Kong: Distributing protective medical supplies and food.

Goonj: As a continuation of our Covid work from last year, this year apart from working on large scale food and other essentials and livelihood, we are widening our interventions for some time from PPE kits, oximeters, thermometers to oxygen cylinders, masks, and other support through cash transfers or otherwise. Also post COVID, hygiene and nutrition has become all the more important. Thus our focus will also be to work large-scale around water, sanitation, kitchen gardens etc. in the coming months.

Mass Welfare Society: In order to help the most needy people, the daily wage earners, Mass Welfare Society had undertaken many food distribution programmes in 2020 - 2021 in the communities of our project areas. Rice, flour, potatoes, onions, pulses, sugar, mustard oil, biscuits etc had been given to  around 1000 families in the areas of Beckbagan, Topsia, Matangini, Peyarabagan, Dum Dum, Anandapur and most importantly in Village Dhamua (District South 24 Paraganas). We also distributed face masks and sanitizers and spread awareness about the precautionary measures to be taken to combat the Corona crisis.

Udayan Care: The Udayan Care Emergency Response Fund was set up in early April in Year 2020 to support our beneficiaries from Udayan Ghar, Udayan Shalini Fellowship & Information Technology Programme . Thus, through the Emergency Response Fund (ERF), Shalinis and their families were helped to sustain themselves. They were supported either financially or with ration kits during this difficult phase. A Need Based Targeted approach was adopted and Shalinis across 13 states in 21 chapters were contacted, we classified their need for support into three groups: Urgent, Average, and Low need, and acted on it accordingly by reaching out to the families in Urgent category first. Take home rations, cash relief, mentoring to ensure the girls were safe in lockdown gave way to the dire need to keep the girls learning through online school, college and the Fellowship curriculum. The girls under the Udayan Shalini Fellowship programme faced technological challenges as the majority did not have access to mobile phones or computers. With the second wave of Corona pandemic, we fear the same situation once again and are gearing up to reach them in case of need. We also plan to induct 1200 new Shalinis during the next six months and provide them with devices and data.

International Centre For Theoretical Science: ICTS researchers have been active on a number of different fronts in the national mission against covid-19. ICTS is coordinating a multi-institutional effort led by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (and all its centres) as well as the Indian Institute of Science and other partners called Covid Gyan, for creating, curating and communicating scientifically accurate information. Other members have been studying and tracking the global data on the infection in innovative ways. Covid Gyan is a pan-TIFR-IISc multi-lingual science communication initiative to bring accurate and accessible science communication, on the topic of Covid-19. This website serves as a hub to bring together a collection of resources in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. These resources are generated by public supported research institutions in India and associated programs.

Jeevodaya: Jeevodaya is directly involved and supporting COVID -19 efforts in Bangalore, Karnataka, INDIA. 1) Provisions : Rice, Dal, Edible OIl, Pulses, wheat flour, soaps, etc, Curry Powder to nearly 10,000 families. 2) Masks and Sanitizers : 10,000 people. 3) Food ( Cooked Food) : 1,00,000 people 4) Online Education and Learning for the Socially and Economically deprived children  who otherwise will be deprived - left out of Digital and Online Learning during the LOCKDOWN. These children are from STONE QUARRIES, VILLAGES and SLUMS

Makkala Jagriti: Makkala Jagriti's response to the pandemic has been multipronged to ensure the communities we work with in urban and rural Karnataka, India are safe,  feel connected and also to ensure that children and youth we work with continue learning: 1. Providing essential grocery kits to families who were affected by loss of livelihood due to lockdowns 2. Awareness campaigns to ensure the right information about Covid-19 reaches our beneficiary communities (About precautions, helplines, vaccines, busting myths) 3.Learning under Lockdown - A program for ensuring continued learning for 25000+ children right in the safety of their homes through a multi-modal approach of reaching them through online and offline means - Whatsapp groups,youtube channel, community visits and providing them with learning kits for holistic learning in order to bridge the digital divide. 4. Social and Emotional Well-being - Connecting with children, their parents and teachers on a regular basis to check on them and have conversations around their emotional well-being 5.Capacity building of teachers and parents - We have designed virtual programs to build capacity in parents and teachers to equip them with the necessary knowledge, skills and attitude for supporting the learning of the children during the pandemic 6. Connecting patients to relevant helplines for the provision of Hospital and medical support

Harmony House: Currently our covid specific initiatives are as follows: 1. Harmony House Care package drives – This has been ongoing since March 2020 and we have helped more than 25000 people. Repeat packs have gone to all families on  a regular basis. We provide a family of 4 care packs to last 10 days including rations like atta, rice, dal, oil, sugar, salt & spices, etc and hygiene products like sanitary pads, soaps, washing powder, toothpaste and brushes, etc. (approx pack cost 920/USD 12). 2. Medical Relief: The pandemic has caused huge challenges for our families who were already living below the poverty line. They already struggled to feed and shelter the families and this was made even more difficult as jobs and homes were lost. Living day to day became almost impossible but getting medical aid had been completely cut off by the government as they accepted only COVID-19 patients leaving so many desperate and in some cases fighting for their lives alone. This left many vulnerable and easy targets for loan sharks and frauds who promise treatments and do not deliver. Currently, the medical assistance that we provide at Harmony House is on a case to case basis, although we provide aid and guidance wherever we can. We have a team of volunteer doctors who perform online consultation, however treatments and tests are not always affordable.

United Way Mumbai: With the second wave of the pandemic overwhelming our public health infrastructure and communities, United Way Mumbai is now working on: 1. Equipping hospitals and healthcare workers with essential protective and medical equipment 2. Helping women earn a livelihood through provision of occupational tool kits 3. Allaying fears related to Covid-19 vaccination in low income communities 4. Facilitating vaccine registrations in low income communities 5. Providing ration and hygiene supplies to daily wage earners 6. Helping auto and taxi drivers to be Covid ready through provision of safety screens and basic hygiene and sanitation material, along with training. We have also initiated long term interventions to build back better through: 1. Working with hospitals to establish stronger Infection Prevention Control processes to protect healthcare workers and patients 2. Establishing linkages with government schemes and livelihood opportunities for persons from low income communities

United Way Hyderabad: The second wave of COVID-19 has pushed India from a bad to catastrophic phase within a fortnight. The state of Telangana has also been witnessing a steep rise in the number of positive cases and deaths due to Covid-19. The state recorded 8,126 new cases on 25th April with around 38 deaths. The demand for testing, isolation, and treatment is increasing every day. United Way of Hyderabad is currently focusing its campaign on three key aspects; ensuring the availability of the Rapid Antigen Tests with the state; Provision of Home Care Kit for COVID positive families in low-income communities and provision of minimally invasive oxygenation equipment to state hospitals, currently to Gandhi Hospital and TIMS. The requested quantities in the deck summarise the overall need. Based on the interest and fund allocation, we can customize the support you would want to opt for. We are also working on a plan of getting Covid-designated Isolation Centers ready in the community and will keep you updated on the same if you wish to support the same.

Children's Lovecastles Trust: Our State- Karnataka State - is shut down again and our digital classroom program for under-served communities has stopped and children have no resources or study material in their homes or communities. We are starting a campaign to release all the STEM resources in English and all the regional languages - 15,000 STEM videos, 6,000 PDFs, experiments etc. free of cost to the entire nation and to a global audience. We also have a second APP only for teachers about STEM pedagogy. We have a program cost to run the campaign through Social Media, Bulk SMS, Outward calling, Google ADs etc., in addition to technology upgrade costs. The APPs are ready, in Google Play Store and content is ready.

Sree Jnanodaya Grameena Vidya Trust: The second wave of Covid-19 has turned out to be very dangerous and unprecedented in surging covid infections and dislocating life of the vulnerable communities specifically in the rural areas.  Jnanoday, as a grassroots NGO is trying to extend every possible support to these vulnerable communities in Chickballapur and Kolar district.  Hence, Jnanodaya intends to continue to work both in relief and rehabilitation activities as follows: 1. Awareness on wearing masks, Social distancing, testing and isolation and vaccinations 2. Build immunity through Ayurveda tonics which contain necessary vitamins 3. Supply of masks, sanitizer, nebulizer and oximeter 4. Digital Campaigns on removal of misconception, fear and misinformation on vaccination and the disease 5. Support Gram Panchayaths in increasing vaccination coverage 6.  Support poor women, marginal farmers and migrant labourers with a financial support between INR.6, 000 to 10,000 for income generation/livelihoods and employment.

Oxfam India: In the last few weeks, India is facing its worst health crisis and Government Health Machinery is not able to cope with this emergency. Oxfam has started its response, reaching out to the most affected and vulnerable communities and will be working in 17 states of India. Oxfam India received requests from the officials from the government health departments to provide support for ‘Medical Equipment & Accessories’ and materials that includes Hospital beds, Coir Mattresses, PPE Kits, Sanitiser, Hand Gloves etc. We are going to distribute and install medical equipment and accessories at government institutions (hospitals/health centres). We are distributing PPE kits and safety kits to frontline health workers and the community. We are reaching out with food to the stranded workers and to the most marginalised and vulnerable communities. We will make direct cash transfers to the most marginalised households, especially women-led ones to pay for their immediate needs or establish small businesses. We will impart skill-based, livelihood training for women and self-help groups to help them generate income. Oxfam India needs CAF America to equip Indian healthcare system with preventive measures and provide Food and Livelihood security to the vulnerable.

Concern India: India is right now in the grip of a devastating second wave of the deadly coronavirus with states and cities starting to go under fresh lockdowns. We are in a state of public health emergency and there is an urgent need for vaccinating as many disadvantaged individuals as possible, providing medicines, oxygen, essential drugs, food grains and many more life saving items. In response to the spread of COVID-19 in India , Concern India Foundation has been working towards strengthening public health institutions by providing protective equipment and tools enabling them to treat and manage COVID-19 patients. In the past year we had worked in Delhi/NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Kerala and Telangana in the following areas: 1. Supporting hospitals. Covid Centers, and health workers by supplying health kits and other necessary items 2. Strengthening the ICU of hospitals enabling them to treat and manage COVID patients. Our support included providing ventilators for paediatric cases, ECG machines, portable x-ray machines, ambulances ,etc 3. Supporting the police force by providing personal protection equipment like sanitizers and disposable gloves , and setting up of a covid center for Mumbai Police 4. Providing dry rations to the unorganised sector in various communities and villages, including migrant labourers, transgenders. 5. Supporting farmers to sustain during the pandemic

CARE: CARE is reaching out to partners, both current and potential, to help fund an agile crisis response in one of India’s poorest and most populous states, Bihar. Yesterday we were able to launch a pop up COVID-19 health facility in Patna, which costs approximately $150,000 for two months of operation. The government of Bihar has asked CARE to partner with them to establish five more temporary health facilities with estimated reach of more than 6,000 serious COVID-19 cases with doctors, nurses, oxygenation, monitoring and testing – a cost of $1.4 million (or $280,000 per facility) over two to three months. CARE anticipates this intervention to be likely to save at least 10,000-12,000 lives.

iVolunteer: iVolunteer is working to purchase Oxygen concentrators in bulk from manufacturers and partnering with other agencies for competitive costs, quick supply, and reliable quality. Oxygen concentrators enable trained medical professionals to administer oxygen to patients in waiting areas, in COVID Care centres, and in ambulances and community health centres.

Plan India: We are working with important stakeholders across 15 states in the country and trying to help 5500 communities with below mentioned relief work: 1. Providing food baskets and hygiene kits to families impacted due to loss of livelihoods and restrictions imposed by the Govts. 2.Supply of protective gears i.e. PPE Kits, N95 masks, gloves etc for healthcare workers and other frontline COVID warriors 3.Installation of OXYGEN GENERATION PLANTS where it is needed the most as Indian hospitals are facing acute shortage of oxygen. 4.Providing beds and other essential supplies to districts govt. hospitals. 5. In most affected districts, we are also trying to establish temporary health facilities for treating mild to moderate COVID positive cases.

American India Foundation Trust: HEALTH FACILITY INTERVENTIONS 1.Oxygen concentrators - Providing oxygen concentrators to primary care facilities in rural areas, where there has been a dire shortage 2. Ventilators – Procuring and ensuring the installation of ventilators in states that have expressed a need 3. Portable hospitals (20 – 100 beds) – Addressing the shortages of beds by adding portable hospitals to existing health facilities 4. Cold-storage equipment - Procuring and ensuring the installation of cold-storage facilities for vaccines, which will become a need as vaccine production increases FRONTLINE HEALTH WORKER INTERVENTIONS : Helping those who are at the greatest risk of getting infected 1. Community screening and home-based management  – Providing pulse oximeters to state governments, for their entire ASHA and ANM workforce, to be able to improve community monitoring of COVID-19 patients and ensure early referral 2. Personal protective gear (PPE) - Providing frontline workers with masks, gloves, and hand sanitizers, for personal protection COMMUNITY-CENTERED INTERVENTIONS Education and nutrition remain some of the greatest needs 1. Awareness campaign – Through IVRS, spreading community awareness of sustained COVID-appropriate behavior, including the use of masks, hand hygiene, physical distancing, and home-based care of infected individuals, along with creating awareness on vaccination and related side effects 2. Ensuring nutrition of key vulnerable groups via cash transfer - Supporting the nutritional needs of vulnerable communities, particularly women and children

Transform Rural India Foundation: TRIF is mounting a comprehensive healthcare program to support rural communities combat COVID in 73 most backward districts in four states of the country. The key elements of intervention are (1) Strengthening community disease surveillance and ensuring local treatment for mild cases (2) Strengthening government primary and secondary healthcare facilities - especially around Oxygen availability and (3) Accelerating the Vaccination among poor and vulnerable communities. We have more than 100 professionals and a large community cadre on the ground and formal partnerships and embedded cells with health departments in these states to immediately respond to the emerging crisis. Please find attached a detailed note and slide deck on the strategy and intervention.

Save the Children: Save the Children is on the ground in India and working through partners and in coordination with the government to provide crucial, lifesaving support – fast-tracking vaccinations, providing essential supplies like oxygen and ventilators, setting up COVID-19 field hospitals, referring children in need of alternative care, distributing learning and play kits, and much more. As this crisis unfolds, we are particularly concerned for children. Tragically, a significant number have lost their parents to the virus and are in need of care and protection. Save the Children is taking on the important task of caring for these children who are now without parents and, wherever possible, bringing them together with other family members through our family reunification services.

Doctors for you: "Isolation and Treatment Centre Support: Vistex Hospital operated by Doctors for You (DFY) is located in Masarhi village of Patna district, Bihar. The hospital has been providing accessible and affordable primary health care services prioritizing maternal and child health, geriatric care, malnutrition, adolescent reproductive, and sexual health for the poorest of the poor in the area. The patient profile included population from 300 villages from Patna and Nalanda districts of Bihar. As the number of Covid-19 cases in Bihar is on continuous rise, therefore, the Hospital has been converted to 50-bedded isolation and treatment center for serving the suspected/confirmed Covid-19 cases. It is the only hospital that can provide quality emergency healthcare services in the area. Budget Components - Medicines, PPE Kits, Consumable Support, Allowances for Covid-19 Screening Team, Food for Confirmed Covid-19 patients, Honorarium for Healthcare Staff."

Habitat for Humanity India Trust: Habitat for Humanity India uses donations to support emergency relief, reconstruction and rehabilitation needs of people and communities affected by various natural and manmade disasters. The funds will be additionally used to support the individuals, households and communities affected by the Covid 19 pandemic through various interventions including those mentioned above and interventions focusing on prevention of Covid 19 infection, prevention of hunger, promotion of health, finanacial literacy, livehood training, livehood support, transition. Funds will be utilised to provide dry rations, hygiene kits, behavioural change communication, skill training, support for alternate livelihood, mental health support, financial literacy training sessions, transitional shelters and permanent shelters to the marginalised communities.

Jubilant Bhartia Foundation: Amid the growing cases of COVID-19, India is facing an acute shortage of oxygen for critical patients in the hospitals. Though all the section of society is equally affected but it inflicting serious damages to vulnerable section of society . HP India with proactive support of its employees is partnering with its long term NGO partner Jubilant Bhartia Foundation (JBF) to establish an oxygen bank catering to society with special focus on vulnerable sections (as identified above).With support from donors, JBF shall establish a bank of 150 oxygen concentrators which shall be provided to needy and then after a while taken back to cater others. Thus creating a community pool to use the resource in such turbulent times.

SWASTI:  Donations to SWASTI go toward vaccine readiness and supporting community voice platform on prevention & care - using an IVRS system, PAN India to be utilised within a month. The program includes systematic community outreach and demand generation including counselling for COVID-19 vaccine uptake and handholding people with digital literacy issues to register on the Government's Co-WIN app to get vaccinated.

Salaam Baalak Trust: “It has been one of the most difficult weeks since SBT was founded more than 30 years ago. 110 of our children and staff are ill right now, primarily in the residential care homes. Most of them are moving towards getting better but this has increased from 17 sick children just 10 days ago, and the number affected in the outreach centers will be much higher. One of our female staff members came out of hospital today, still with low oxygen levels, and very, very sadly a male colleague passed away a day ago.”

Mobile Creches: In a pandemic of such gigantic proportions the urgency is to ramp up health infrastructure and support frontline health workers to meet the expected peak caseload across the country. At the same time it is vital for organisations like MC to remain connected with poor families, excluded from public welfare systems, to ensure they have the information and the means to remain resilient against the infection, to seek and receive the help they need, at this hour. Our COVID 2.0 Relief Response will: (1) Respond to emergency requests for oxygen cylinders, concentrators, hospital beds, plasma donors, medicines etc. through linkages with public, private, and community provisions. (2) Run community relief through COVID awareness, monthly nutrition for children and families, psychosocial help, immunization linkages, early education modules, and facilitate vaccination camps at labour camps and urban slums. (3) Distribute COVID management kits comprising of oximeters, thermometers, masks, and sanitisers. Bundled with awareness about their use. So that entire families are protected.

Udavum Karangal: Distributing Essential Kits of food and hygiene supplies - including nutritional & medicinal kits with immune boosting supplements and medicines - to the 2000 suffering families in Tamil Nadu; ensuring the safety and taking preventative steps for the 1050 residents of Udavum Karangal who are prone to COVID virus spread during the next 4-5 months by providing each with immune boosters and safety guards; distributing 250 Food packets daily for the deserving people in the neighbourhood; and distributing vital medical supplies, including oximeters and face masks to hospitals in Chennai.

CanSupport: CanSupport is currently filling critical gaps in COVID-19 care for 3000+ cancer patients and their families in four States of North India through its palliative care services. Their free of charge services have a holistic approach and focus on symptom management (physical, psychological), expertise in discussing prognostic uncertainty, establishing goals of care based on patient and family values and preferences, and support of the caregivers and families.

Development through Education And Rehabilitation: Providing dry rations , masks, provisions, and medicines for COVID-19-afflicted persons in villages, within the transgender community, and to migrant labourers.

Yayasan CEMPAKA Education Centre:  To reduce  and  prevent  the  spread  of  the  Covid-19  outbreak  and  also  the  socio- economic impacts of people and workers in 10 cities in Indonesia.  Prevention  activities include spraying  disinfectants,  providing  hand  washing  facilities,  the distribution of masks and medical wear for medical workers who work. In addition, the centre will distribute at least 50,000 food packages to the poor in these regions.

The Saoirse Foundation: Transporting vulnerable, critically ill children to medical facilities for treatment in sterilized vehicles.

Jack and Jill Children’s Foundation: Providing in home care for critically ill children who are vulnerable to the outbreak.

Focus Ireland: Supporting the 10,000+ homeless people, including nearly 4,000 children, plus the thousands of people on the cusp of homelessness throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing hot food, nutrition packs, activity packs, medical attention, information and accommodation services to homeless people across Ireland - including a cocooning facility to protect elderly people from the virus.S

Irish Red Cross: Assisting the public and members to combat the public health threat of COVID–19.

Leket Israel: Rescuing crops that would go otherwise unharvested due to outbreak and providing food aid using purchases and rescued supplies.

Latet: As the leading NGO combating poverty and food insecurity in Israel, Latet is spearheading the humanitarian response to feed the most impoverished Israelis economically afflicted by the outbreak with salvaged and purchased food parcels.

ActionAid International Italia Onlus: Online community platform to match needs across the region with supply for psychological support, e-learning, and delivery of goods. Also, addressing the increase in gender based domestic violence (known to increase during times of crisis and economic hardship).

Associazione della Croce Rossa Italiana (Association of the Italian Red Cross): Providing emergency services, health services, psychological support, public health education, outbreak surveillance, health screenings, transportation services to health facilities, and medical equipment in the form of: protective suits, googles, gloves, shoe covers, thermo scanners, thermometers, and hospital set up (beds, curtains, power units etc).

DYNAMO Camp: Therapeutic Recreation Lab activities for children and teens that are affected by chronic diseases at home. Reaching people via digital network technologies and instruments such as Facebook Live Sessions to offer Therapeutic Recreation.

Fondazione Francesca Rava NPH Italia: Helping ICU of Policlinico di Milano in Milan, the northern part of Italy.   Developing a new ICU area, entirely dedicated to COVID-19 treatment. Support required for diagnostic and care equipment and ICU beds.  Also preparing for the emergency in Haiti, supporting the St. Damien Hospital, the only free-access paediatric hospital of the country with a maternity unit.

Save the Children Italy: Save the Children Italia (STC IT) is focusing their actions on food vouchers for children whose families have begun to experience a negative impact on their income. STC is also focusing on the education and psychological components: 1.Support for study, reduction of the learning loss through 200 tablets purchase and distribution. 2.Psychological support to the most affected schools.

Regione Lombardia:  Acquisition of goods and services necessary for the regional health service structures to be used in COVID-19 emergency response activities, as well as the implementation of civil protection interventions in relation to the emergency. In particular: masks, protective suits, gloves, overshoes, swabs, protective suits, disinfectants and instruments necessary for healthcare facilities, doctors, nurses and staff to better treat the sick and limit the chances of infection.

Emergency Ong Onlus: Funding will support emergency response to address the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Our medical staff, who are already experienced and skilled in handling pandemics having helped treat the Ebola epidemic in 2014-15, are currently focusing on: 1) Delivering goods - food, medicine and other basic items - to people over 65, who have been ordered to quarantine, and vulnerable people who cannot risk leaving their homes. 2) Providing counselling to Milan hospitals and reception centers to improve the protection of medical staff and patients and reduce the risk of contagions. 3) continue working at the 11 clinics that EMERGENCY runs in Italy and using triage to identify patients with symptoms that could point to the virus

Family House: Donating supplies, helping families stuck in Japan because of travel bans (specifically, families with children who came for medical treatment).

Second Harvest Japan: Securing larger food supplies to help food shortages and people otherwise unable to get adequate nutrition because of the crisis.

Shine On! Kids: Shine On! Kids support children with cancer and other serious illnesses in 23 hospitals throughout Japan. Right now, these children are more isolated and stressed than ever due to extreme restrictions on family visits, volunteer activities, etc. We have launched a new COVID-19 response program called Shine On! Connections - providing iPads, projectors, robots and communications technology as well as live, interactive weekly content to engage, educate and connect these kids - keeping them positive during this stressful time.

St. John Bosco Educational Trust: Supplying meals to children who relied on school lunches but now stay at home due to closures.

Food for Education Foundation: Supplying meals to children who relied on school lunches but now stay at home due to closures.

Safe Spaces Nairobi: Controlling the spread of the outbreak in slums through public education and provision of PPE.

Lebanese Red Cross: Purchase of personal protective equipment for ambulance volunteers (masks, protective uniforms, protective boots, and disinfection equipment).

Rise Against Hunger Malaysia: Rise Against Hunger's mission is to End World Hunger, and one of our main pillars of work is to relief hunger during periods of natural disaster, such as COVID-19 pandemic. We have been feeding the extreme poor children, women, the aboriginal communities and disadvantaged refugees with food to help them to relief their hunger status due restriction of movement during the pandemic period and these poor communities could not go out to work to make a living. Rise Against Hunger meal packs are designed with nutritious food which will benefit them tremendously.

Cruz Roja Mexicana I.A.P: Implementing “The National Response and Bio-contingency Plan” and launching a communication campaign, about personal health-care and prevention for COVID19 symptoms. The campaign will be shared within the most vulnerable communities.

Fondo Unido México (United Way Mexico): Taking action for those who are being most affected by the isolation and prevention measures. Identified two critical issues that families will be facing during the time of confinement. On one hand, over 55% of people in Mexico live day by day, without savings and depending on informal jobs for their income. On the other, as Mexican culture revolves around people and family, staying at home can bring several emotional and psychological complications. Immediate response plan focuses on 3 intervention strategies: emotional guide to promote healthy dynamics during the period of confinement, provide families with food and hygiene ítems and ensure that communities have access to medical information regarding the spread of the coronavirus.

Un Kilo de Ayuda: Ensuring that all children under the age of 5 in Mexico have full child development. During this time, we are adhering to the protocols and safety and hygiene measures outlined by the WHO and health authorities and continuing to assist families with the best hygiene and health practices and deliver food packages within the community in a safe manner.

Comunidar: Provide the health sector with complementary medical and protective equipment during COVID-19.