The situation in India is dire. COVID-19 cases continue to set record highs daily, with medical staff in need of urgent supplies to cope with the increasing number of patients.
Our UiPath community and their families are experiencing the impact, too. Each day, we are hearing from employees about the tragic impacts to their families and friends associated with the unprecedented rise of cases. We’re asking ourselves what more we can do as a company to ensure people get the support they need to keep themselves, their families, and their communities healthy and safe.
India is special to UiPath for many reasons. In 2014, several of our co-founders worked for weeks with a business process outsourcing (BPO) firm in India as they became our first customer that set us on the path to robotic process automation (RPA). This drove us to establish our operations in India, our first country expanding out of Romania. Today, we have over 450 employees and contractors in India, hundreds of customers and partners, and the largest number of RPA developers from a single country as part of the UiPath Community.
We decided that we need to urgently help with this crisis. We reached out to health care systems to see if we can help support and fund the delivery of much-needed materials and oxygen to India. Our goal was to find an organization that we could support that can deliver supplies in hours and days versus weeks and months.
Last week, we met Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder and Director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy. Leveraging his vast network, Ramanan mobilized OxygenforIndia.org to provide lifesaving medical oxygen for those who need it most.
I’d like to thank Tech Mahindra, a great UiPath partner, for their deep support for OxygenForIndia. Through the 2021 Global Emergency Fund against COVID-19 in India, UiPath, the UiPath Foundation, and UiPath employees are providing nearly $1 million to deliver oxygen supplies immediately to India.
