How volunteers are matching physical distancing with social solidarity

Within 24 hours of setting up a social media group and helpline called Caremongers India on March 20, Nagaraj had 150 volunteers from across India

This past weekend in Bengaluru, before India went into lockdown, telecall agent Suraj Christopher drove for over an hour to deliver a package to perfect strangers, a septuagenarian couple. The package contained their diabetes medication. A woman had reached out to Christopher earlier, explaining how she usually visited her parents every week but the national lockdown meant she was stuck in Chennai. Her elderly parents lived in Bengaluru.

The past few days have seen Christopher making many such deliveries, even waiting for hours in case his local pharmacy has to arrange for a medicine. He uses gloves and a mask