Bangalore run NGO raises 40l through crowdfunding for COVID Relief

Bangalore run NGO raises 40l through crowdfunding for COVID Relief

19th July 2021, Mumbai:

Bangalore based completely student-run NGO, SPARK, has raised 40 lakhs through Crowdfunding for COVID Relief.

The Associate Vice Presidents of the NGO, Indraneel Acharya and Tanisha Anand Raaj, connected with us for a short interaction. 

This non-profit organisation was founded by Akarsh Shroff, a BITS Pilani student, in 2018. 

This NGO seeks to develop the condition of underprivileged children, through educational mentorship, scholarships.

The NGO focuses on the areas of education with 500+ student volunteers who have contributed 16,000+ hours of volunteering with 5,000+ children beneficiaries. Apart from this SPARK’s COVID relief campaigns have helped it step into the limelight due to its astonishing impact numbers.

The NGO has facilitated the deployment of 27000+ Examination gloves, 1056+ Face Shields, 12 Fowler Beds, 5100+ N95 Masks, 18+ Oxygen Concentrators, 600+ Oxygen Masks, 155+ Pulse Oximeters, 400+ litres Hand sanitiser, 7600+ Surgical Masks, 4+ Thermal Scanners, 200+ Thermometers, 1920+ Universal PPE Kits and 1200+ Ration Kits. 

They are in the process of expanding their rural digital education programme to several more villages and their teaching operations 2 at orphanages and government schools are scaling threefold.

 

 

 

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