Overview
Crowdfunding can be a quick and easy way to meet unanticipated, pressing needs. Today, anyone with a smartphone can participate in making a difference with great ease. More and more people are now raising funds online to tackle emergencies more efficiently. Increasing digital access and the convenience of online payments are driving more and more Indians to take the digital route to mobilize greater support for urgent needs on time.
India's private healthcare spending is estimated at $90 billion a year. Of this, about $60 billion is out-of-pocket: from savings, borrowings and support from friends and family. This is where crowdfunding plays a role, bridging the gap, and making it easy to both ask for and render financial assistance.
People have always turned to their friends, family and communities at a time when a significant amount of money is required to deal with urgent medical crises.
About Us
Jan Sewa Sahyog Trust is an online crowdfunding platform that enables anyone across India to raise funds for healthcare, education, sports, disaster relief and other personal causes, with great ease.
What started as a platform to fund rural projects and micro entrepreneurs, is today widely utilized by Indians to raise funds from friends, family and a wider social network for medical needs, loved ones and charity. Jan Sewa Sahyog Trust is soon becoming the go-to platform for funding cancer treatment, transplants and other critical emergencies.
Successful Fundraising Stories
Ajay battled cancer valiantly for 3 years before the illness took his life. After his death, all Ajay's family wanted was to give him a full burial, but the hospital wouldn't release his body until all his treatment expenses were settled. The family had been in financial distress for a while, struggling to pay off the expenses. After much coaxing, Mark's body was released by the hospital, with the condition that all the expenses be settled by.
They needed Rs. 3,65,000 to clear the dues at the hospital, and watching them struggle to arrange the money, one of Ajay's friend started a crowdfunding campaign via Jan Sewa Sahyog Trust’s online platform.
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Little Shanmuka turned one in 2019. This is his first birthday, and he spent the day on a hospital bed with his worried parents, fighting (and winning) a major battle for life.
It all began in February when Shanmuka began showing unusual symptoms for a boy his age. His skin turned a painful yellow and he would constantly cry in discomfort. His parents rushed him to the nearest hospital, expecting the doctor to diagnose him with jaundice. However, his condition was far worse than they'd imagined.
At no more than 11 months old, little Shanmuka was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, a condition where the liver is permanently damaged. Only a liver transplant could save him.
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Dheeraj, a young man from a middle-income family couldn't have ever guessed that he would be able to raise funds for his father's treatment overnight!
Dheeraj hails from India and works as an engineer in Bengaluru. His parents are humble vegetable vendors back in his hometown and his income helps sustain them.
Unfortunately, in November 2018, his father suffered had an unexpected heart attack. On rushing him to the hospital, doctors found through an angiography test that he had three blockages in his heart and surgery was required immediately. When the hospital was inefficient in providing care, Dheeraj and his mother moved his father to a different hospital.
Dheeraj knew his parents were in no place financially to be able to afford such a procedure. Determined to save his father's life, he turned to crowdfunding. And did he make a hit of a fundraiser! He managed to raise well over his predetermined goal amount of Rs 3 lakhs in less than one day, becoming an ideal example of an emergency medical campaign.