We The Future Raises $50 K In Fundraiser #United4India
Social Media, Apps and many digital tools have witnessed significant and real time growth in extending helping hands during the second wave of COVID-19. Amid all these, the sensational audio-only app on millions of phones worldwide, Clubhouse (CH) that recently went live over android across the globe has seen the surge in raising hope of humanity and helping hands by raising a fund of $50 k within a week through a Global Speaker and Live Music Fundraising Event championed by Kunal Sood, Founder, We The Future, a global social impact organization.
Organized by WeTheFuture (WTF) and the CH community the innovative audio-only fundraiser is committed to #United4India to unite people on the ground, journalists, medical experts, artists, musicians, DJs, poets, entrepreneurs, mothers, humanitarians, filmmakers and more to drive awareness, mobilize resources and fundraise to support the most vulnerable that have been hit the hardest during India’s second wave of coronavirus crisis.
The fund is dispersed via pledge to the vetted NGOs, including GiveIndia, Oxygen for India, Chopra Foundation, Desai Foundation, UNICEF and SeeSchool, using charity navigators and trusted sources on the ground. The proceedings are subjected to help the individuals needing services such as oxygen, hospital beds, medicines, COVID-19 home care, and doctor consultations. WeTheFuture’s initiative comes as a rescue for those who are left with no means to seek help.
The ‘Global Speaker and Live Music Fundraising Event’ includes a series of daily events throughout the month and it concludes with a #CHUnited4India Benefit Concert on June 5, which is also the World's Environment Day, something very close to Kunal and his initiatives as a Global Impact Expert.
“India is burning in the second wave of COVID-19 virus, it’s like a tsunami," said Kunal Sood. "The only way forward is to protect the most vulnerable. We are glad to have received an overwhelming response from brave and compassionate women and men from all around the world. The level of participation, as well as financial aid, is meant to help those at the bottom of the survival chain,” he added.
It's very important to stand together and support the people in need, it's great to see how individuals from different walks of life are stepping up to help and using various options they have. From Social media to all these apps technology has been a big boon for all in support towards Covid-19 aid. Not just within India but from all over the world, people are trying their bit as humanitarian efforts, Doctors in the US are also generating lists of NGOs, food services and cremation facilities for different cities of India. With the United4India campaign, we are supporting NGOs, using real-time help on CH by taking help from disruptive startups," said Kunal Sood.
In other fund-raisers on CH artist-activist Drue Kataoka raised $120,000 for racial justice previously, and together with friends and supporters on CH and her social media, Kataoka led campaign has raised over US$175,000 in less than two weeks for the Hope Foundation USA charitable hospital in Calcutta as a COVID aid.
Kunal also welcomes everybody to support the initiative. US donors can text - 'UNITED4INDIA' to 707070 while other international donors can visit the official website and donate in 14 acceptable currencies.
