What Is Long COVID?

This campaign focused on providing the most vulnerable group in Suriname with painkillers and fever-reducing medicines. The fundraiser successfully raised more than €21,000 through WhyDonate.

It may be hard to imagine, but in some countries COVID-19 has an even greater impact than here. One of those countries is Peru. The poorest in the country are hit the hardest there due to poorer infrastructure and care facilities. Our goal is to collect funds to food and help people in Peru.

India is witnessing a devastating second covid wave right now. People(rich or poor) are struggling to get basic necessity such as oxygen. Hospitals are full and patients have to use facebook or twitter to get medicines, hospital beds or oxygen cylinders. In this time of crisis we would like to connect to people who would like to help in any way. Our goal is to collect funds to buy medical grade oxygen concentrators and provide them to those who are living in remote places and villages.

Kabanga Referral Hospital is a mission hospital located in the village of Kabanga in Kigoma region, in rural Western Tanzania. The area of the hospital is now facing a serious corona wave, which we suspect is caused by the newest delta variant of COVID 19, and we are faced with a huge number of patients who are oxygen dependent.

The cause of this lies mainly in three reasons:  Firstly, the hospital has very little financial means to acquire what is needed. It is a private hospital under the Catholic Church, which is self reliant and does not receive government funding. For the past years, it has faced repeated financial loss due to various reasons, which have now accumulated into debts. Secondly, unfortunately, materials and equipment needed for COVID 19 care are quite expensive. Thirdly, we have been facing a serious staff shortage due to the hospital’s poor financial status and the failure to attract nor attain qualified personnel.

Our partner FutureCare notified us of the indirect effects of COVID-19 on the less fortunate in Sri Lanka. Many of the schools we collaborated with have signaled that some of their students are facing famine. The lockdown makes it difficult to earn much needed income to purchase food. At their young age, malnutrition affects the development of the brain negatively. This emergency campaign aims to provide relief to 158 primary school students over a period of 6 weeks. These are children from primary schools we have previously assisted through our Building a Future or Equal Chances projects.