Dear Friend,
As a country, India has set a record for new coronavirus infections and deaths. Makeshift crematoriums are being erected in parking lots. Nearly every family in India is experiencing the loss of relatives and friends.
India is reporting nearly 400,000 COVID cases and 3,500 deaths a day. These numbers are believed to significantly underestimate the actual infections and suffering and are still higher than any other country during its peak.
The health care infrastructure has collapsed under the pressure of the second coronavirus wave with an insidious new variant. Hospital beds are impossible to find. And oxygen supplies are scarce or nonexistent. And those who are least likely to receive lifesaving care are, as always, the poor. The sick are dying en masse.
Please chip in now to provide support to those in India. They are desperately in need of basic supplies. $5, $10, anything helps.