11 Days Left | Oxygen Project

Embers is helping to build a medical-grade oxygen plant, and there are only 11 days left to double your gift to secure desperately-needed oxygen in Assam, India. This year, hospitals in India have seen thousands of patients perish in COVID-19’s second wave, in large part due to the nationwide oxygen shortage. The situation is particularly dire in isolated rural areas with no local source of medical-grade oxygen, as the lockdown has suspended most forms of transportation. 
 
Our partnership with Emmanuel Hospital Association (EHA) has focused our effort in Assam, a remote area of India where victims of the sex trade are regularly trafficked across borders from neighboring countries and hundreds of bonded laborers are forced into the province’s tea farms. EHA’s Burrows Memorial Christian Hospital serves Assam’s unemployed population, daily-wage workers, as well as survivors of sex trafficking seeking medical attention, regardless of their ability to pay. Our oxygen plant will provide immediate relief and long-term care to those vulnerable to exploitation. 
 
Would you rise to the challenge of our $50,000 matching pledge? 

Let's Finish Strong | 1 Mile 1 Child
Darren set out to bike 1,000 miles to raise $25,000 for the 1,000 children in the Turbhe area. We are pleased to report that Darren has surpassed his goal of biking 1,000 miles on the Tour Divide, the world’s longest off-pavement cycling route! Five states, 29 days, hail, lightning, windstorms, and many packs of gummy worms later, Darren has traversed an incredible 1,700 miles of cross-country terrain. Check out a quick highlight reel of his epic adventure in the video above. 
 
So far, we have raised $21,539. Only $3,361 left to go — let’s finish strong with him!
 
Would you rise to the challenge of our $50,000 matching pledge?  [CLICK HERE]

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Do you drink Assam tea? This special tea is farmed exclusively in a remote region covered in tropical lowlands, nestled in the far northeast of India. Known for its bold, full-bodied flavor and bright amber color, Assam tea is considered the perfect, malty breakfast drink, often served to royalty at Buckingham Palace. 
 
Assam tea is named after its birthplace – Assam, India – one of the world's most prolific tea-producing regions, generating over half the country’s tea. While Assam exports over 20 million kilograms of tea per month (enough to brew 10 billion cups of tea), Assam also imports a devastatingly high number of human lives, accounting for more than 22% of the total reported cases of trafficking across all of India. Assam lies at the borders of 9 different geographic entities – an interlocked location that, combined with a high demand for tea-harvesting laborers, renders the region an epicenter of trafficking across country borders.

Embers is raising funds to build a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen plant to serve survivors of trafficking and the marginalized in Assam at EHA’s Burrows Memorial Christian Hospital.  Two anonymous American donors have generously pledged to double all contributions from now until July 31st. Starting today, your gifts will be matched up to $50,000. 
 
Will you join our Oxygen Project and help us build the foundation to care for one of the most exploited populations of India ­– to transform an epicenter of human trafficking into a place of hope?