Gabriel Project Mumbai COVID-19 Emergency Response on Righteous Crowd this Week!

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Gabriel Project Mumbai COVID-19 Emergency Response

Providing Life Saving Services in Rural India

Today is the first day of the Jewish month of Iyar, which is an acronym for “Ani Adonai Rof’echa” or “I am God your healer” (Exodus 15:26). In this spirit, we are supporting an organization that is working tirelessly to provide emergency rations, soap, hygiene products, face masks and other COVID-19 equipment to tens of thousands of people in the slums and rural villages in India. The pandemic lock-down has brought terrible disruption to the millions of people living in already desperate conditions. Righteous Crowd supported Gabriel Project Mumbai in June 2019.

Righteous Crowd and other supporters of Gabriel Project Mumbai (GPM) received an email this week with the subject line: GPM tackling starvation during COVID19 lock-down in slums and villages which included the following information.

Like all global emergencies, the COVID-19 is most perilous for vulnerable populations. For the people living in the Kalwa slum in India, where 200,000 people are crammed into tiny huts and have few communal resources, the pandemic threatens to be lethal.   

In response to this imminent threat, GPM – which operates the only medical clinic in the community – is launching operation CoVER: Corona Virus Emergency Response to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 in the slum. Additionally, because of the lock-down situation and inability to work, every day we see families starving with no ability to feed themselves!

The CoVER campaign has a 7-prong attack in curtailing the spread of the virus and alleviating starvation in the slums:

  • Provide lifesaving nutrition to starving families.

  • Expand medical services. 

  • Launch an awareness campaign.

  • Provide accessible information.

  • Distribute free soap.

  • Teach preventive measures. 

  • Educate schoolchildren. 

To learn more about Gabriel Project Mumbai, click here.
To read our June 2019 interview with Founding Director Jacob Sztokman, click here. 
To see past organizations supported by Righteous Crowd, click here. 

Amy Benarroch