India-born Ivy League alumni and students come together to raise funds to fight COVID-19
The Hindu
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Rather than feel helpless when the second wave of COVID-19 hit the country, US-based Princeton alumni Shreyas Lakhtakia and Julu Beth Katticaran turned “the negative emotion of being away from India into a positive one by offering help”. This eventually led to the formation of Students Fight COVID (studentsfightcovid.in), a fund-raiser for COVID-hit in India. The initiative has grown to over 200 students and professionals [India-born] joining the bandwagon to offer consultations for students applying to Ivy League schools as well as other premier institutions across the world, irrespective of stream or degree programme. In exchange for one-to-one counselling, participants are required to donate to a COVID-19 charity. So far they have raised ₹11 lakh, says Shreyas adding that their ‘moonshot goal’ is ₹1 crore.
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