Shas­tri Boodan

Se­wa In­ter­na­tion­al TT (Se­waTT) has raised close to $500,000 to as­sist vic­tims of COVID-19 in In­dia and peo­ple af­fect­ed by the vol­cano in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

Head of the or­gan­i­sa­tion Reevan Teelucks­ingh said around $112,000 has been raised for In­dia.

He said the monies went di­rect­ly to SE­WA USA for the pur­chase of oxy­gen con­cen­tra­tors.

Teelucks­ingh said SE­WA In­ter­na­tion­al USA had built a strong re­la­tion­ship with the man­u­fac­tur­ers of the oxy­gen con­cen­tra­tor.

He said the con­cen­tra­tors are pur­chased at a cost of US$500.

He said SE­WA Bharat is al­so on the ground in In­dia pro­vid­ing food sup­port for peo­ple un­der lock­down.

SE­WA Bharat is a fed­er­a­tion of women-led in­sti­tu­tions pro­vid­ing eco­nom­ic and so­cial sup­port to women in the in­for­mal sec­tor.

Teelucks­ingh said the St Vin­cent dri­ve has been phe­nom­e­nal with over $300,000 be­ing col­lect­ed for the vol­cano vic­tims.

Teelucks­ingh said both the In­dia and St Vin­cent dri­ves would be closed on May 10 in or­der for Se­wa to start as­sist­ing vic­tims of the fall­out of COVID-19 in T&T.

Teelucks­ingh said peo­ple can do­nate by vis­it­ing SE­WA.ORG or call­ing 333 Se­wa.