Farhan Akhtar's Excel Entertainment joins hands with NGOs to offer help amid COVID-19

By Lokmat English Desk | Published: May 2, 2021 02:50 PM2021-05-02T14:50:18+5:302021-05-02T14:50:43+5:30

Farhan Akhtar took to his social media to share a  list of NGOs Excel Entertainment has provided with donations. ...

Farhan Akhtar's Excel Entertainment joins hands with NGOs to offer help amid COVID-19 | Farhan Akhtar's Excel Entertainment joins hands with NGOs to offer help amid COVID-19

Farhan Akhtar's Excel Entertainment joins hands with NGOs to offer help amid COVID-19

Farhan Akhtar took to his social media to share a  list of NGOs Excel Entertainment has provided with donations. He wrote, "Sharing a list of organizations that @excelmovies has donated to thus far, in the fight against COVID-19. From oxygen to ambulances to food, they are doing some incredible work on the ground. Encourage you to do your bit to help. Every rupee matters. Jai Hind. ???????? @ritesh_sid."Hemkunt Foundation, Doctor For You, Mission Vayu, Rasoi On Wheels, Give India, Hope Welfare Trust, SBS Foundation, Sathyarth Socio are some of the organisation names shared by Farhan that are providing oxygen cylinders, food for quarantined patients, medication to everyone tackling the virus. 

Earlier,  Akshay Kumar, Varun Dhawan extended support through various initiatives to help India combat the second wave of coronavirus pandemic. Expressing his concern over the crumbling healthcare system in the country owing to the rising COVID-19 cases, Dhawan said he will help to procure and donate oxygen concentrators to hospitals. The 34-year-old actor has partnered with Mission Oxygen India, a fund-raising initiative by Delhi-NCR based entrepreneurs, for importing oxygen concentrator machines and donating them to various hospitals across the country. The second wave of coronavirus has infected many people, and the number of COVID-19 positive cases has been rapidly rising. India saw a record 4,01,993 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours and the cumulative count of the cases to 1,91,64,969. With 3,523 people succumbing to the infection in the last 24 hours, the death toll has mounted to 2,11,853. There are 32,68,710 active cases in the country.

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