[Work in Progress]

Why?

A week ago, most of us would have countered that corona is just a social media hype, and we well aware people have nothing to be afraid of it. But as the situation has escalated across various states of India, we have around 166 cases, and this just out of the few people who have been tested ( will look for exact facts and change this statement). We are already at the verge of using a good proportion of medical facilities, and if the situation goes on like this, we won’t have enough resources to deal with it.

A series of tweets by an Italian citizen hits you in the face and forces you to accept the reality: https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz/status/1238977743653687296?s=19.

Some of us have self-quarantined, but there is a misconception among masses, and people are still gathering and going on trips. Probably we need to get hold of the masses across various borders because precaution is always better than cure!

Who?

We are a bunch of students, entrepreneurs, and above all, concerned citizens willing to put an effort to help our nation fight this crisis. Yuva Fund's initiative is driven by the founders - Raj Kunkolienkar (BITSian, Founder at Nova Semita), Krishna Murari (Founder at Flumbo) and Abhay Jani (Growth @ AccioJob, The Product Folks).

We got together at endcoronavirus.org (MIT / Harvard initiative) and the gocoronago.org (India Startup Twitter initiative). We're overseen by Sriram Chandrasekaran (IIM-B) who is a growth hacker (Head of CX Strategy at OLX Global, grew Jabong), Amritha Sukrity (IIT-Kgp, MedTech Founder), Surendran Mahendran (3x YCombinator, ex-Yahoo).

We're working with health ministries and are backed by IAS, IPS officers, founders who've been through YCombinator.

Yuva Fund's initiative is driven by the founders - Raj Kunkolienkar (BITSian, Founder at Nova Semita), Krishna Murari (Founder at Flumbo) and Abhay Jani (Growth @ AccioJob, The Product Folks.

What?

We need your support for:

• helping us curate and deliver the content in your languages, according to your norms for reaching out to people belonging to various economic and cultural communities.
• asking people to refrain from gatherings; from your college mates to your fellow workers, to your local vendors, we need to isolate everyone.
• getting connected with suppliers directly to deal with the upsurged prices by local retailers for sanitizers and masks.
• developing better and faster medical infrastructure, newer ways for doing the tests, and of course, managing the demand of working usable ventilators.