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Apr 24, 2021 • 21 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
Very important.
For those Americans and other non-Indians looking to donate for dealing with the horrific second surge in India, I'm going to make a thread of organizations I recommend donating to. Lot of hindu RW and fascists in the mix you should avoid. My recos are from personal experience.
I'll start off with what in my personal experience is the gold standard for humanitarian work in the south asian ecosystem. @Khalsa_Aid is there everywhere, from natural disasters to feeding and caring for BLM and women's march protesters. 501c in US.
khalsaaid.org/donate-usa
A milaap crowdfunding fundraiser for ventilators in community in hospital in remote mountains. Still a thousand dollars short of the target as I post.

milaap.org/fundraisers/su…
Just to elaborate, what I'm posting here are organizations or drive that
1. Can accept US donations (regardless of 501c).
2. That I myself have donated to, so an FYI fwiw in case you want to be careful about your money not ending up with scammers or fascists.
Also I know @Hemkunt_Fdn is doing great work in sourcing and supplying oxygen BUT it can't accept donations from foreign citzens, which I technically am so can't donate. But if you're an Indian citizen with a way to pay in rupees, I recommend it too.
hemkuntfoundation.com/donate-now/
This is a great master list to refer, with each entry clarifying whether it can accept foreign funds or not.

FYI, this is very important because the Modi government has resurrected or created lots of red tape around payments from overseas.

Oh just realized... Before I continue with my online #CovidIndia shopping spree, any matching initiatives I should be aware of? I'm generally not comfortable tweeting donation amounts but happy to DM or email receipts if it leads to matching donations.
One thing I'm planning to do and which I recommend, is send a personal "stimulus" payment of sorts to everyone in Pune I know who is blue collar or working class. Cooks, cleaners, watchmen, etc. Direct cash transfer.

The limit for that, from a foreigner, is ₹50K ($700) fyi.
Also planning to send parents money with instructions to tip every delivery person delivering anything a certain amount I can afford that will also help them more. Consider doing that. Covid has disproportionately hurt those who serve us in india at ridiculously cheap wages.
These orgs are doing great work and I'm donating to them of course, as should you. But if you just make a cash gift, whatever you can afford, to those people in India often not allowed to ride in your elevator or made to disinfect extra or walk a thousand miles, please do.
That extra few thousand rupees at a crisis time like this will go a long way for those who literally live daily wage to daily wage. You have no idea how much it means to them even if they are too proud to ask or acknowledge. We can't even imagine the scope.
I've asked my mom to draw up a list of everyone in our lives in Pune who is working class and am planning to send them a modest "stimulus" as much as I can afford. Please consider doing this with your own families in India. Support those who work for you for less than peanuts. Image
The reason this is extra helpful in India is that while even a petulant idiot like Trump got the point of why a direct cash transfer is necessary in lockdown times to at least get food, rent, Modi is about putting the onus on the weakest. And giving money to the richest.
This is an exceptional list! Lists orgs that help some of THE most vulnerable groups and people in India. Who have been hit hard THE hardest. With details and links. Great work.

Alright, Monday morning. Let's resume this thread.
Donated to and personally recommend @apneaap if you're looking to donate with a non indian credit card or bank account.

A million meals for sex workers and their children in the most vulnerable places

globalgiving.org/projects/suppo…
Waste pickers in India live really hard lives at paltry pay and 19th century equipment and no safety net. If you've spent a day in India, you've seen at least one elderly person coughing while picking up filth people throw. Covid has been brutal on them.

fundraisers.giveindia.org/projects/provi…
Ooooh yay! Americans can now donate to @Hemkunt_Fdn
Through ketto.
ketto.org/fundraiser/o2f…
Another worthy effort I donated to and encourage you to do so too.

Donate to this. As you might have noticed, my focus is on work being done to help THE most vulnerable sections of Indian society. Hundreds of millions on a daily wage existence facing a de facto famine because of covid and a lack of social safety nets.

Oh a general donation pro-tip. I know a lot of people prefer to donate anonymously because they don't want the "credit". I used to be like that too until an activist said please always put your full name down cos
A) people who trust you see it, trust us
B) Matching initiatives

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"Wherever you go in this world, you will find a t̶e̶a̶ s̶t̶a̶l̶l̶ great school founded by a Malayalee."

K.T. Behanan was a brilliant Yale educated social scientist & Indian bureaucrat who landed in NYC with his doctor wife & 5 year old son.

Ran straight into systemic racism./1
The year was 1947 & Behanan, a Syrian Christian from Kerala's influential Kovoor clan was a 45 year old superstar in the Babu circles of the brand new India.

He accepted a position for India at the brand new UN, working on education policy with the Trustee Council.

Ironic.
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Schools were openly & emphatically segregated. Brown v BoE was some years away.

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I'm at that age where a lot of my friends are starting to send their kids to college. So getting a lot of queries on US college as an option.

So I'm going to do this reference 🧵 with the basics to avoid repetition. And send it to them before further more specific questions. Image
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An undergrad education in the US is an amazing enriching experience beyond just the academics & the jobs after. I envy my students a little they get to live it.
I start off mentioning the cost cos I want to be absolutely clear that as awesome as such a college education will be for your kid, it is not going to be cheap.

Unless you have a Sheldon Cooper type kid, there is no free ride for international students in undergrad. That's Grad.
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But how little we really know each other!

Recently, a Chinese grad student shared her love story with me. I repeat it here with her permission.
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He grew up in a similar configuration, in the northeast of China.

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And both realized how they had to think about parents and grandparents in China just by themselves!
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My hypothesis about why hindus are uniquely frequent in false flagging by pretending to be minorities in numbers not seen from other ethnofascists, is that Sanghism is unique in not being based on any reality at all. Other fascists at least exploit *some* reality.
Hitler rode to power by exploiting the very real discontent against the treaty of Versailles & economic ennui.

Trump rode to power by pointing to millions of migrants. I think they are a net positive, his view is wrong. But it is a reality, at least, that he's misdiagnosing.
Right wingers in Europe & Israel are also exploiting what is, very much, a structural struggle between two groups.

Sanghism is unique cos quite simply, Indian Muslims are not "a problem" in any realistic way. Never have been. They are one of us. For centuries. And will be too.
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In the state of J&K where you can barely finish singing yeh haseen vaadiyaan before running into 3 check points, a dude managed to ram an explosive filled vehicle a long distance away from the LoC.

We never heard how those logistics worked tho we know all details of 26/11.
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Also why Western media seems to have "do you condemn Hamas" tourettes. Seen them force guests to condemn Hamas 3-4 times in 5 mins. But stepping any questions or nuance outside that narrow purview.

"How could Hamas kill 1400 civilians?" is both a moral AND logistical question!
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