Project Breathe
To deliver the essential medical devices and services in Kolkata to help in fighting the second wave of the pandemic- Bay Area Prabasi has formed a consortium with Kolkata Foundation, AIM, MUKTI, RHCF, NK Realtors and Srijan.
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Project Breathe
GOAL
$200,000
RAISED
$218,512
June 8 Update
– Oxygen Concentrator distributed – Total 500 (Breathe Consortium; US-India) out of which 168 Prabasi led US cohort
– West Bengal organizations supported by the Consortium – RKM, BSS, Rotary Club, Lions Club, Nanritam Purulia, Samaritan Help Mission
– 170 Oxygen Concentrator from Give India foundation went to Sundarbans through the consortium
– Every district in West Bengal has access to Oxygen Concentrator; You can find the contacts here.
– COVID Food home delivery (Kolkata, Howrah and Katwa) – 5000 meals are donated though Prabasi cohort @Rs 110/meal includes packaging and home delivery.
May 23 Update
– 354 human lives saved!
– Provided free concentrator with these reputed regional organizations – Rotary Club of Siliguri, Sundarban Mukti, Belur math, Good Samaritan Foundation (Howrah
– 500 O2 Conc. procured, 400 operational.
– 25,000 medicine kits planned, 5000 delivered, 15,000 ordered
– 400 pulse oximeters ordered, 162 distributed
May 13 Update
We held a webinar. Here are the updates:
– 235 oxygen concentrators have been delivered as of May 11
– 500 medicine kits distributed
– 400 oximeters procured and under distribution
– Supporting other charitable organizations with oxygen concentrators and cylinders
– 24/7 helpline up and running in Kolkata
– RHCF has a set of doctors ready to take calls
For details of the webinar, please check the Events tab.
May 8 Update
– Today, 120 oxygen concentrators have arrived in Kolkata, and the call center Hello Beta has started taking calls for the distribution process.
– Another 310 concentrators are on their way to come between 5/10-5/18
– This morning, the support center has received an overwhelming amount of 1200+ calls requesting oxygen concentrators
May 1st Update
– $150K + INR 50 Lac raised for Project Breathe
– Greater Bay Area Clubs – Sanskriti, Utsav, Bay Basi join the effort with Bay Area Prabasi & Kolkata Foundation
– 100% funds will go towards relief
– 130 oxygen concentrators @ $560 reaching Kolkata May 4th.
– Additional 250 concentrators on the way Mid May
– COVID medicine kit created & under procurement
– Website + Call Center operational procedures finalized for distribution
April 21st – Week 1 Progress
– Connect with leading Oxygen vendor to procure oxygen concentrators (Product spec) at a discount
– Consortium of 5 partners across US and Kolkata formed to raise funds
– Order placed for 120 concentrators.
– Reached out to 10 largest Bay Area corporations to secure funds.
– Kolkata first responder center established to create a single point of contact for families in need
– 18 doctors on call through telemedicine services
– Trained volunteers to do at-home delivery of oxygen with telemedicine calls to doctors.
We hosted a webinar on May 13 to get a clear picture of the progress we made with Project Breathe. Please watch the complete recording of the event below:
Our Plan:
– Procure 500 high-quality oxygen concentrators + 5,000 pulse oximeters and ship to Kolkata (Concentrator units are procured @$520/per unit)
– Create a first responder center [Hello Beta] for at-home delivery of oxygen concentrators (to reduce pressure on hospitals at maximum capacity)
– Connect patients via telemedicine to a pool of medical doctors
We thank all of you for making Project Breathe possible. No contribution is small or big, each penny worth like a gold coin for a bigger cause. Your helping hands keep the people of Kolkata alive. Hundreds of people are taking breathe because of you.
Contribution $20,000:
- Arijit Sengupta
Contribution $10,000:
- Tirthankar Lahiri
Contribution $5000 and above:
- Arijit and Chandana Mukherjee
- Ashok and Rita Sinha
- Anu Maitra
Contribution $2000 and above
- Anirban Das
- Outreach Promotional Solutions
- Sudipta & Santanu Sinha
Contribution $1000 and above
- Ranjit Chakravorti
- Dipanjan Pramanick
- Gregory Meyer
- Sudeshna Raha
- Saikat Paul
- Nirmalya Modak
- Biplab Adhya
- Saikat Saha
- Bratin Saha
- Sudipto Mukhopadhyay
- Bitan Biswas
- Supratim Basu
- DJ Das
- Paul Chun
- Joel Jakubson & Krishna Mitra
- Shauli Chaudhuri
- Nilanjana Paul
Contribution Less Than $1000:
- Anirban Chakraborty
- Sakti Das
- Samita Sen
- Malavika Ghosh
- Amlan Haldar
- Manosiz Bhattacharyya
- Heather Kane
- Shankar Seal
- Vikas Gautam
- Sudip Nag
- Raj Kurapati
- Subho Chatterjee
- Shar Dubey
- Sukanta Ganguly
- Sumali Sanyal
- John Brown
- Prithviraj Banerjee
- Amlan Debnath
- Debashis Dhar
- Satadal Bhattacharjee
- Shubhobrata Sengupta
- Yu-Shu Chu
- Ramyanshu Datta
- Jayadev Vadakkanmarveettil
- Barun Kar
- Isha Chakraborty
- Corelynx Technologies Inc.
- Abhijit Datta
- Mitil Roy
- Nabanita Sen
- Ananda Bose
- Sandip Bhattacharya
- Abhijan Banerjee
- Krishnapriya Barmanray
- Mainak Banerjee
- Akshay Nandan
- Abhayendra Singh
- Chandan Dasgupta
- Sugata Sanyal
- Dipanjan Das
- Siddhartha Chattopadhyay
- Sejal Kamani
- Aparna Chatterjee
- Sujal Gupta
- Swati Saxena
- Aloka Banerjee
- Sanjay Banerjee
- Ratan Das
- Nishtha Ghosh
- Anukana Ray
- Souvik Das
- Subhendra Ghosh
- Smita Das
- Partha Sircar
- Jaanbazar
- Sanchita Saxena
- Eric Wedel
- Subhra Gima
- Alex Alex
- Prosenjit Sen
- Amit Basu
- Abhishek Gupta
- Amit Chattopadhyay
- Kushal Lala
- Nil Chakraborty
- Divya Kotireddy
- Moupali Das
- Saswati Paul
- Samir Mittra
- Venkatesh Venkatasamy
- Sayani Ghosh
- Rohini Kar
- Shantanu Nag
- Sunny Gupta
- Debjit Sarkar
- Punyanjan Sen
- Sandip Dasgupta
- Susmita Bhattacharya
- Somnath Sen
- Kalidip Choudhury
- Shaikat Sen
- Partha Choudary
- Arindam Chakraborty
- Sandeepan Banerjee
- Anupam Bagchi
- Sandip Bhattacharya
- Nita Sukul
- Dipak Majumdar
- Rajit Saha
- Abhijit Sil
- Manjishtha Ghosh
- Allya Mukhopadhyay
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- Julie Grant
- Ambar Kumar Das Bairagya
- Gautam SenGupta
- Biswapesh Chattopadhyay
- Indradeep Banerjee
- Pinaki R Mukherjee
- Sam Mohanta
- Kalyan Ghosh
- Madhurima Dhar
- Gargi Gangopadhyay
- Anil Kar
- Piu Ghosh
- Narasimha Annapareddy
- Dipayan Bhattacharya
- Dipak Sarkar
- Gourab Mitra
- Kiran Adhya
- Gano Chatterji
- Bhaskar Deb
- Sudakshina Banerjee
- Asim Das
- Soumya Chakravorty
- Tia Ghose
- Amitava Das
- Sharmistha Chakravorty
- Tamalika Mukherjee
- Subir Chowdhury
- Rajesh Gupta
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- Kalpana Chakraburtty
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- Indrajit Banerjee
- Dan Angeles
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- Soumik Roy
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- Sudipta Chatterjee
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- Arjun Poddar
- Manan Pathak
- Lu Huang
- Subrata Roy
- Anjan Tarafder
- Sharmila Bagchi
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- Abhik Roy
- Blake Bolan
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- Eglind Myftiu
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- Tonia Poteat
- Judith Auerbach
- Melanie Thompson
- Bailey Gallagher
- Amit Chatterjee
- Abhijit Neogi
- Santanu Kar
- Venkatesh Krishnan
- Sharmistha Das
- Shubra Sarkar
- Natalie Pitchford
- Hangjun Zhan
- Rishav Ghosh
- Tonya McQuade
- Kristi Beiter
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- Michelle Cheng
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- Manju Banerjee
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- Andrea Weddle
- Sankhajit Chakraborty
- Brotati Guha
- Karno Das Chowdhury
- Fatema Shaikh
- Piyali Ganguly
- Anindya Chitta Bagchi
- Somnath Mita
- Ankan Roybardhan
- Edwin Platt
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- Surajit Mitra
- Kenneth Garcia
- Paul Chun
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- Rajesh Nerurkar
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- Meghomala Chakrabarti
- Somnath Roy
- Madhura Kearns
- Selvan Rajan
- Manjari Dutta
- Mrinmoy Saha
- Ranjita Chakraborty
- Subhasis Das
- Simadri Moitra
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- Pravin Rodrigues
- Amitava Samaddar
- Debbrata Das
- Binoy Roy
- Kimsukh Kundu
- Deb Sen
- Debasis Bera
- Soumya Mukherjee
- Tanushree Samanta
- Pritam Sinha
- Neena Burman
- Pallab Datta
- Punyanjan Sen
- Rajkumar Rajendran
- Debyani Ghosh
- Joyeeta Mitra
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- Nikhil Shah
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- Robert Station
- Pradipta Shome
- Koyeli Mukherjee
- Prithviraj Dasgupta
- Sudeshna Das
- Sudarshana Bhattacharyya
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- Abhijit Das
- Sankar Mukhopadhyay
- Pallab Sen
- Emmie Le
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- Jason Copeland
- Sanghamitra B Roy
- Eunice Choi
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- Shounak Bagchi
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- Anirudha Banerjee
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- Marie Thuillier
- Debashis Paul
- Anindo Roy
- Brandon Mathew
- Steven Lang
- Aloke Das
- Saurajit Ghosh
- A. Banerjee
- Dr. Biswamay Ray
- Avijit & Chitralekha Moita
- Anonymous
- Kaushik Ghosh
- Alex Brun
- Ashima Roy
- Ly Carrion-Capas
- Madhumanti Palit
- Manasi Ghosh
- Amitava Das
- Somnath Mitra
- Indradeep Banerjee
- Pramit Mitra
- Nilanjana Panda
- Subrata Ghosh
- Estella Mihovilovic
- Anirban Banerjee
- Chittabrata Ghosh
- Debanjan Saha
- Joyita Roy
- Uma Bhowmik
- Sucharita Nandan
- Sanjay Ray
- Bijoy Chattopadhyay
- Subhadip Chatterjee
- Abhijit Das
- Rupak Debnath
- Santanu Kar
- Shao Lu
- Kaushiki Mukherjee
- Debjyoti Paul
- Naina Prasad
- Abhijit Saha
- Sumanta Chatterjee
- Kaushik Ghosh
- Indradeep Ghosh
- Dipto Mukherjee
- Madhubanti Chowdhury
- Abhijit Seal
- Biswadeep Nag
- Patricia Fukami & John Ewing
- Amalendu Chakrabarty
- Ranjit Dasgupta
- Suparna Das
- Madhubanti Chowdhury
- Deepak Mehta
- Kalpana Chakraburrty
- Pia Law
- Partha Sircar
- Somnath Ghosh
- Nilotpal Sanyal
- Somnath Roy
- Vikash Kothari
- Sumana Sur
- Roshni Chatterjee
- Elpida Sklavos
- Anirban Datta
- Souma Sengupta
- Abhijit Mitra
- Mary Farmer
- Sucharita Nandan
- Rituparna Bhattacharya
- Mala Bansal
- Josefa Simkin
- Viman Deb
- Naushaba Rashid
- Anonymous
Thank you for the kind words
Dear Hello Beta, You saved my mother’s life to be honest. Her oxygen level was dripping to 78,79 at times and we had no other way but to keep her under continuous oxygen support. We could save her just because we got the concentrator in time. Thanks to Hello Beta again…
Iman Mitra
When my dady badly attacked by Covid-19 Hello Betta helps to give my dady new life by supplying oxigen concentrator machine in time. Thank you Hello Beta.
Subrata Seal, S/O Pradip Kr. Seal
We searched every where in kolkata for a oxygen concentrator .When we almost give up my brother in law found this site. Hello beta. In the time of crises no body will help any one without a proper price. But Hello Beta gave us a concentrator for free. They probably save my mother’s life…
Dibyendu Dey. Sangeeta Dey
First of all thanks a lot for helping me with a concentrator during this crisis. My father in law is 75 years old and is Covid +ve and is on 24 X 7 oxygen support. Team HelloBeta listened to my request patiently and sanctioned my request and I am really grateful to you and your whole team.
Amit Mittal
I would like to immensely thank Mukti NGO for the initiative they have taken to provide Oxygen Concentrators to Covid patients who are desperately in need of Oxygen due to the saturation level randomly falling down. There is nothing that can be more painful to see your nearest and dearest ones suffer…
Sumanjit Singh Ahluwalia
I thank you for your support of oxygen concentrator during my need, I am grateful for your help.
Rimeli, D/O Sanjukta Dey Barman
Thank you Debabrata for suppling oxyzen generator at doorstep of patient’s home at proper time without any demonstration ….It help Jasoda Halder(Damkal) a covid + patient, to stop to go hospital or safe house… She get a long sleep after last 36 hours…I congratulate ‘Mukti’ for taken noble…
Sukanta Banerjee
Pampa tomake ji ki bole ashirbad korbo???? Tomader moto manush round the clock kaj korche bolei sab cholche Thank you Concentrator install hoeche Ma ektu better Bhalo theko Pare janabo.
Raka Ghosal
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Mrs Subhasree Goswami
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Ms Nandita Bhattacharjee
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