How Two Dancers, A Mom And A Life Coach Help Out In India's COVID Crisis
Amid India's COVID surge, regular folks are channeling their time, talents and resources to support their neighbors — and strangers, too. Public health experts say it's making a real impact.
Dibyendu Tarafder is a dancer based in Kolkata. The pandemic put a halt to his performances in the ancient Kathakali dance-theater style. But now he's doing a new kind of fancy footwork — juggling phone calls to help COVID patients.
As India's deadly COVID crisis unfolded in early May, Tarafder, 28, and a team of volunteers were fielding over 800 calls a day from people desperately seeking oxygen, hospital beds and COVID tests. Tarafder says he would answer his phone and try to help, even at 3 a.m.
Tarafder says the outbreak in his country inspired him to channel his time, money and talents to solve urgent COVID problems in his community. Other regular folks in India are pitching in as well. And public health
