India's Helping Hands
India's Helping Hands

Highlights Of The #HelpingHands Telethon: An Initiative To Set-Up COVID Centres For Children And Vaccinate People In Rural India

New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) and ChildFund present India's Helping Hands, supported by WhatsApp. The campaign aims to raise funds to set-up child-friendly COVID centres and run vaccination drives in vulnerable districts of rural India. These funds will also be used to protect the people of rural India from the severity of the third wave and in the long term, will help skill people who have lost jobs due to the pandemic and make them self-sufficient once more.

Here are the highlights of the #HelpingHands telethon:

Jun 13, 2021
21:15 (IST)
#HelpingHands: Alysha Lobo, Co-founder, CovidAsha talks about the WhatsApp helpline service that provides verified information and handles almost 2,000 queries per day


The conversation started in a WhatsApp group. We wanted to address the problem. People were looking everywhere for information so how could we give them one single point? We decided that chatbot was a way to go. Now we are addressing two-fold problem - relevancy of the data and how quickly we are able to get it out. Secondly, supplier empathy. Suppliers were getting calls. We worked as two side market place. One is giving information to people and the second, help suppliers. We are live in seven languages. During the peak, we helped 2,000 people per day.

We want to further strengthen the efforts and take the initiative to the rural India.

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Helpline Numbers

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    My Gov Vaccine Locator

    +91-9013151515

    MyGov is a citizen engagement platform founded by the Government of India

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    NCW Expectant Mothers’ Helpline

    +91-9354954224

    National Commission for Women's 24×7 helpline number provides medical assistance to expectant mothers

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    Odisha Chatbot

    +91-9337929000

    WhatsApp chatbot helps citizens search for a vaccine slot, get updated information on beds and oxygen availability

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    KMC Chatbot

    +91-8335999000

    WhatsApp chatbot helps book vaccination appointments

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    DC Gurugram Helpline

    +91-9643277788

    Dedicated WhatsApp COVID-19 helpline to provide citizens access to a central repository of all COVID-19 resources

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    Greater Chennai Municipal Corporation

    +91-94999 33644

    The helpline number helps people with COVID related FAQs, availability of beds, oxygen, tests, doctor consultation

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    Robinhood Army

    +91-8971966164

    Helpline for Senior citizens to easily get connected to a volunteer who can help them with the COVID-19 vaccination process

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    COVID Meals For India

    +91-8882891316

    A chatbot that helps COVID patients and healthcare workers connect and order meals from volunteers

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    COVID Asha Bot

    +91-7676522535

    COVID Asha chatbot provides real-time verified information on oxygen procurement, refilling, and ambulance services

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    X-Ray Setu

    +91-8046163838

    A free-to-use AI-driven platform to aid doctors for early COVID interventions over WhatsApp

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    India Shield

    +91-9082328320

    India Shield's helpline aims to support COVID-19 patients in need and provide authoritative information

About The Campaign

A catastrophic second wave of COVID -19 infections has brought India together, united in grief and pain, but with an overwhelming desire to help each other through the toughest of times.

 

As India braces for a possible third wave, the time for us to stand together once again, is now.

 

With compassion and empathy for one another, we can all play a role in strengthening India & protecting each other from another onslaught of the infection.

 

India’s Helping Hands is raising funds for resources that will be critically required should a third wave hit. The funds will also be used to protect the people of rural India from the severity of the third wave. In the long term, the funds will help skill people and make them self-sufficient once more.

 

Your support will help set-up child-friendly COVID centres and run vaccination drives in vulnerable districts of rural India.

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