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In India, Civil Society Groups Fill the Void as the Government Fails to Confront COVID-19

05.16.2021 - By TimePlay

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Ravi Singh is no stranger to relief efforts. His organization, Khalsa Aid, led humanitarian support to the embattled Yezidi in 2015, to Rohingya refugees in 2017, and to tsunami-stricken Indonesia in 2018. What he did not expect was that his NGO’s skills would be needed across India in the wake of COVID-19.

“We went from serving food in a war zone to procuring oxygen concentrators in a dysfunctional democracy.

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