India's Top Comedians Join Hands with COVIDIndia.org to Raise Funds to Support Health Workers!
by EVENTFAQS Bureau Industry Watch | April 16, 2020 | Press Release
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In times of grave crisis where countries and giant corporates are donating their salaries and huge amounts, people from the standup comedy industry came forward to support the country. To fight the crisis, 80 + Indian comedians and influencers came together to do a fundraiser from 2- 10 PM on April 11th & 12th 2020 in partnership with COVIDIndia.org and Kashtakari panchayat. As funds raised will be utilized by COVIDIndia.org to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to frontline health workers of Sion Hospital, Mumbai & JP Hospital, Bhopal. Both hospitals are two of India's nodal centers for treatment, isolation and quarantine for COVID-19 patients in their respective cities.
The charity stream was hosted through Tanmay Bhat’s YouTube channel where Tanmay and Kaneez Surka were the hosts for the stream along with Kenny Sebastian, Abish Mathew along with 80+ other comics entertaining masses all across the world to gather donations for helping India fight COVID-19. The stream was filled with different exciting activities such as playing the popular first-person shooter game ‘PUBG’ along with short KVIZ zones and scribble drawing games. Fundraiser followed a three-pronged strategy where funds gathered through COVIDIndia’s campaign on India’s leading giving platform GiveIndia, UPI based payments on 8291378363 along with direct payments through super chat feature of YouTube where money was sent through YouTube’s portal.
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Riddhi Mittal, co-founder of the initiative said, "COVIDIndia is proud to partner with Indian comedy community for an event, Stay Home for India, which brought together 80+ comedians, YouTubers, influencers and gamers for a live stream over the weekend of April 11th and 12th 2020. We are grateful to everyone who has been gracious enough to contribute their time to this phenomenal initiative."
COVIDIndia.org’s GiveIndia fundraiser aims to raise INR 35 lakh by the end of April 2020 towards procuring personal protective equipment (PPE) kits for needy frontline health workers.
COVIDIndia.org aims to raise a minimum of INR 35 lakh by the end of April 2020 via the 80+comics live stream fundraiser, GiveIndia campaign and other channels.