By PTI
NEW DELHI: Vax.India.Now, a digital fundraiser to help India in its battle in opposition to the COVID-19 pandemic, has raised greater than USD 5 million, the organisers stated on Wednesday, August 11, 2021.
The live performance was live-streamed globally on July 7, with UNICEF and AIG as beneficiaries.
Anuradha Juju Palakurthi, who backed the initiative via her Anuradha Palakurthi Foundation, stated they’re “grateful” for the generosity of huge and small donors from across the globe who got here collectively to help this lifesaving marketing campaign.
“The dedicated, multi-national 160-person organization team is proud to have raised meaningful resources in India’s battle against this awful pandemic. I am grateful to the celebrities for lending their time and talent in particular, the immediacy of their response and commitment to the cause,” the Boston-based Indian playback singer stated in an announcement.
Anuradha additionally expressed gratitude to the Indian workforce “that had to work through a national lockdown”.
“The campaign is still open at VaxIndiaNow.com. Give today! We are all together in this and must continue to vaccinate individuals, to prevent more variants, and stop Covid 19. It is not over until it’s over,” she additional stated.
The occasion was hosted by widespread comic-actor Hasan Minhaj, with the likes of Liam Neeson, Annie Lennox, A.R.Rahman, Pia Toscano, Zubin Mehta, Gloria Estefan, Sting, Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Yo-Yo Ma, David Foster, Norwegian DJ Alan Walker, Asif Mandvi, Nishat Khan, Ranjani Gayatri Sisters and Matteo Bocelli taking part within the live performance.
Vax.India.Now additionally make clear the bottom realities in India amid the pandemic and educated viewers on how they may also help save lives and make an actual influence, in accordance with the organisers.
Proceeds will help UNICEF’s efforts to make sure tens of millions of crisis-affected and susceptible kids and households in India have entry to life-saving help and companies and assist COVID-19 vaccines attain those in want, they added.
The fundraiser is sponsored by Anuradha Palakurthi Foundation, a venture of The Giving Back Fund, the primary benefactor of Vax.India.Now.
Vax.India.Now is being produced by JuJu Productions, run by Anuradha and her husband Prashanth Palakurthi, Charles Goldstuck, Marc Johnston and Erich Bergen and Wizcraft International Entertainment and Neelesh Misra of Gaon Connection.
Marc Pollick, President and Founder of The Giving Back Fund, stated, “When our longtime Board member Prashanth Palakurthi proposed doing one thing really important on a worldwide scale to assist his native India at this vital time, we jumped on the probability to assist.
“This is what we are built for – to mobilize quickly and provide assistance and philanthropic administration to help those in need. At this moment in time, the need in India must become the center of the universe.”