COVID-19: Volunteering beyond qualifications

The pandemic is a massive humanitarian crisis requiring all hands on the deck. So, professionals from various fields are chipping in with volunteering efforts, sometimes in ways far removed from their workaday lives

The pain of not having said a final goodbye to a young cousin who succumbed to COVID-19 drove Prasanna S. to volunteering. For the last one year, he juggles two roles — that of an IT professional and of an ambulance driver. He volunteers with Uravugal Trust — which gives unclaimed bodies in Chennai a dignified burial — being at the wheel of an ambulance that transports COVID-19 victims to the cremation grounds.