We were in it together - the pandemic, the lockdown, the losses and the horrors of uncertainties. Everyone was affected by the Covid 19 pandemic in innumerable and unmeasurable ways. A year into it, vaccination was the only way to control the pandemic.
But vaccinating a billion people was always going to be a huge challenge for India and this is where NGOs such as CARE India, played a very significant role in fast-tracking the vaccination program. The NGO achieved the vaccination of more than 10 million Indians across 18 states in India in less than a year. They organized mega vaccination camps in major metropolitan cities, did surveys and conducted home-to-home vaccination drives, set up covid hospitals and emergency response units, and donated masks, ventilators and equipment. But most importantly, they travelled across inhospitable terrain to far-flung, hard-to-reach rural areas where the government healthcare system is minimal.
This project, initially started as a documentation of CARE’s covid relief programs, eventually evolved and intends to pay a fitting tribute to thousands of frontline healthcare workers who worked tirelessly and helped us see through the pandemic.