Among millions of requests for oxygen cylinders, beds, and medication, there is also a plea for breast milk donors for newborns in the pandemic. Many lactating mothers have stepped up to donate breast milk for babies whose mothers are battling Covid-19, or have succumbed to the infection. Ronita Sharma is among them.

The 35-year-old Mumbai-based celebrity manager remembers reading a tweet about a baby from Delhi who needed milk since his mother passed away after losing the fight to Covid-19. “While I am from Mumbai, I came to Guwahati to deliver my baby in December 2020, because cases were on the rise here. After reading a tweet about the Delhi newborn, I realised that cases were increasing in Guwahati too. Though, I couldn’t help the Delhi baby in particular, as a breast-feeding mother, I reasoned that I could assist other Covid-19 orphans by donating milk or nursing them. That’s when I decided to make a Twitter post,” shares Sharma.