{"id":894,"date":"2021-05-07T08:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T12:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2023-03-21T13:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T17:00:36","slug":"sewa-tt-raises-half-million-dollars-for-india-and-st-vincent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/07\/sewa-tt-raises-half-million-dollars-for-india-and-st-vincent\/","title":{"rendered":"SEWA TT raises half million dollars for India and St Vincent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEWA TT claims to have raised nearly half a million dollars to help COVID-19 victims in India and those affected by the volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines.<\/p>\n<p>Reevan Teelucksingh, the head of Sewa TT, told Guardian Media today that $112,000 had been collected for India. <\/p>\n<p>He explained that the funds were sent directly to SEWA USA to procure oxygen concentrators because the organization had established a close partnership with the manufacturers. The concentrators, he said, cost $500 US dollars each. He also stated that SEWA UK has been working to help India get oxygen concentrators.<\/p>\n<p>Teelucksingh also announced that SEWA Bharat is currently operating in India, offering food assistance to incarcerated people.<\/p>\n<p>The SEWA TT head characterized the humanitarian aid drive in St Vincent as &#8220;phenomenal,&#8221; with over $300,000 raised for the volcano victims.<\/p>\n<p>Teelucksingh stated that both the India and St Vincent aid drives would end on May 10th, 2021, for SEWA to resume its assistance to COVID-19 victims in T&#038;T.<\/p>\n<p>SEWA TT&#8217;s president requests people to contribute to the organization&#8217;s humanitarian relief efforts by going to sewa.org or calling 333-SEWA (333-7392).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEWA TT claims to have raised nearly half a million dollars to help COVID-19 victims in India and those affected by the volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Reevan Teelucksingh, the head of Sewa TT, told Guardian Media today that $112,000 had been collected for India. He explained that the funds were sent directly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[18,116,179,24,113,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-caribbean","8":"tag-covid-19","9":"tag-india","10":"tag-sewa-tt","11":"tag-st-vincent","12":"tag-trinidad","13":"tag-volcano"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svgsun.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}