1) In view of the severe COVID crisis in India. We, the Students, Staff, Faculty and Alumni of
@CarnegieMellon
University are rallying support to petition the President of the University, Farnam Jahanian to:
2) Request the US administration to ease restrictions around export of critical healthcare resources, including ventilators, oxygen concentrators, raw material and intellectual property for vaccine development.
3) Mobilizing the CMU Alumni
@cmualumnihouse
community with a centralized university effort to make charitable donations and support healthcare organizations in India.
4) Permitting student organizations including, the Indian Graduate Student Association
@cmuigsa
amongst others to contribute parts of their annual budgets to support healthcare efforts.
5) If you are a student at CMU or another university in the US and would like to help and support this cause please reach out to me via Twitter or at chiragn at cs dot cmu dot edu.