Gratitude Project offers hundred ways to say thank you to COVID-19 frontline workers

Started by seven young women, Gratitude Project has seen more than 500 posts of thankfulness towards those on the frontline during lockdowns across India

“It’s one thing to be grateful, it’s another to express it in ways that are deeper than just the words ‘thank you’,” says Maya Patel, one of the founders of Mumbai-based Gratitude Project (TGP) that was started in the last week of May. “We wanted the wall to be a space of that expression of how people’s lives have been touched in positive ways during the pandemic.” Over the last year, there have been many projects offering thanks to frontline workers in healthcare, agrarian community, last mile delivery, law enforcement, sanitation, security, and media. Some of them write letters, some raise funds and others pitch in to buy them essentials. But the team behind Gratitude Project, which launched in the last week of May, wanted this to be a forever journal of thanks.