Our speaker on May 26th was Aruna Kousik, the 2021-22 District Governer Elect for District 6400. Aruna spoke to us about India and Rotary over this last year
India is being hit hard by Covid 19 with the cremation locations full and dead bodies being lined up in front of people’s homes. Many of the rural hospitals and clinics don’t have the equipment necessary to treat those who have the virus.
So far, Rotary has raised $200,000 for oxygen concentrators to be delivered to India. Our District is partnering with another to raise funds and Rotary is partnering with Sewa International, a Hindu faith-based humanitarian non-profit that specializes in disaster relief and has Asian connections, to manufacture and deliver the concentrators.
Rotarians in India are also very involved in the process. The concentrators are first delivered to large cities, like Calcutta, and then transported to government hospitals which treat the poor and to rural locations.