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The Argentinian platform coordinates teams of volunteers who, during a 2-day virtual workshop, without the need for prior knowledge, generate innovative solutions to increase the capacity of organisations that are directly confronted to meeting the challenge of COVID-19.
Read MoreTech To The Rescue is a voluntary movement connecting IT companies with non-governmental organisations around the world, to help NGOs with all types of tech-related issues, such as e-commerce, research, fundraising, software development, etc.
Read MoreThe website by open-source community Precious Plastic gives access to free-to-download source files of face visors, hand free door openers and intensive care respirator masks produced using Precious Plastic injection machines.
Read MoreAs the total raised by the Food for London Now initiative appeal achieved £850,000, the stadium’s underground “pitch pocket” was transformed into a production line with dozens of volunteers wearing masks and latex gloves to produce individual food parcels to be delivered to the doorsteps of poor, elderly and vulnerable residents of Haringey.
Read MoreThe club is asking fans to join in on making donations that will provide meals to frontline caregivers as well as relief for their personal costs.
Read MoreThe initiative, the Covid-19 Health Literacy Project, has already translated essential COVID information about prevention and treatment options, among other issues, in over 35 languages, including Navajo, Oromo (spoken by an ethnic group in Ethiopia), and Swahili.
Read MoreThe website provides free services for community members who are at high risk of catching COVID. Some of these services include grocery delivery, prescription pick-up, and phone calls for emotional support. Individuals can sign-up online to volunteer to support this cause.
Read MoreTerritorial Empathy designed this door hanger to enable people to inform vulnerable neighbours they are here to help. The nonprofit has also created a map that shows all free food locations for New York City families in Spanish to supplement the Government version in English.
Read MoreThe Chak Daeng temple is famous for its environmentally conscious campaign which produces robes from the 15 tonnes of plastic bottles that it receives monthly. The COVID situation has encouraged a group of Thai monks to use the fibres extracted from the plastic to make face masks which can assist in protecting people from this virus.
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