YRF to sponsor Covid-19 vaccines for 30,000 members of FWICE

Yash Raj Films has said that they will sponsor Covid-19 vaccines for 30,000 registered workers of Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) through the Yash Chopra Foundation. In a letter to the President of FWICE, Akshaye Widhani, Senior Vice President of YRF, said that they have sent a request to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to allocate and allow YRF to purchase Covid-19 vaccines for the members of the film industry's federation in Mumbai at the earliest.

The Yash Chopra Foundation of Yash Raj Films will be paying for the Covid-19 vaccines



for 30,000 members of FWICE. In the letter to the President of FWICE, Akshaye Widhani, Senior Vice President of YRF, wrote, "We have sent a request to the Honourable Chief Minister of Maharashtra to allocate and allow us to purchase COVID-19 vaccines for 30,000 registered workers, who are members of the film industry's federation in Mumbai at the earliest. The Yash Chopra Foundation will bear all other costs too associated with vaccinating the workers such as raising awareness, transportation of workers and setting up of all the required infrastructure for the immunisation programme."