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Ibercaja foundation and the Red Cross have launched the '#YoCedoMiCoche' campaign in Aragon, Spain, to which eight official Aragonese car dealerships have joined, contributing their fleet of vehicles for home delivery of essential goods, both food and sanitary products, cleaning and hygiene.
Read MoreThe COVID crisis caused a critical shortage of blood in Ukraine. With the #taxidonor program, Uklon, the national network of gas stations, will provide donors with daily promotional codes to travel to blood donation centres and back home, while the national WOG network will provide fuel for vehicles. The company will provide 20,000 promotional codes in seven cities in Ukraine.
Read MoreBOOKR Class offers free access to their digital library during school closures and provides an easy-to-use gamified application for students, coupled with a teacher’s dashboard displaying real-time statistics.
Read MoreGloo provides trusted resources and digital tools for churches, and the organisations that serve them, as they prepare for and respond to the impact COVID is having on their communities.
Read MoreUsers will receive a browser alert every 30 minutes by the website to get to move. Many of the movements are minimal, the idea is just to force the heart to push blood into parts of the body it doesn’t need to while people are sitting still.
Read MoreGihan Amarasiriwardena, cofounder of Ministry of Supply, based in Boston, is partnering with doctors, design experts at MIT, and MakerHealth, a network that advocates the prototyping of medical devices, to improve on fit and filtration of masks.
Read MoreTraceTogether makes it faster to complete contact tracing on a national level to reduce the spread of COVID. The simple, bluetooth-based contact tracing app helps government officials in Singapore understand who might have been in contact with COVID patients.
Read MoreSchwarzkopf USA launches a new campaign and platform to help salons stay in business by enabling them to create and sell digital vouchers to their customers who soon need their post quarantine hair done.
Read MoreThe website enables Londoners to discover and connect with local businesses in their city remotely, to find grocers, butchers, beer & wine merchants, restaurants, and cafes that will deliver to your front door. And also to stay and entertained with virtual exercise & yoga classes, child tutoring, cooking lessons, and more.
Read MoreBridge for Billions offers an online incubation program to support early-stage founders to develop solutions that will improve people’s lives during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreNIKE is making full-face shields and powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) lenses out of repurposed materials from footwear and apparel to help health care workers on the frontlines.
Read MorePowered by Via and deployed in partnership with the leading transport operator United Trans and Abu Dhabi’s Integrated Transport Centre (ITC), the city’s essential healthcare workers now have a safe and free way to travel between their home and place of work during COVID.
Read MoreSome hotels in Germany offer an alternative to working from home during lockdown by proposing 'hotel offices', including fast WiFi, a desk, telephone and fax, parking space in front of the door, and lunch, snacks and drinks delivered to the room.
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 city of Florianópolis will be the first to receive the "Hyundai Solidarity Transport" program. The company's objective is to transport elderly people over 60 years old as well as healthcare professionals, free of charge.
Read MoreWithin a matter of days of the COVID outbreak reaching Germany, Max Strohe launched the "Cooking for Heroes" initiative, using food donations he receives from restaurants and suppliers to provide meals to medical workers. So far 30 restaurants across Germany have joined his initiative.
Read MoreAdrian Cheng announced that he is supplying vending machines stocked with free medical-grade face masks across Hong Kong to help protect people from COVID. Launching in late April, 35 vending machines will be installed in designated service centres across 18 of the city’s districts.
Read MoreUK's family creators on Channel Mum will share resources from budget cooking lessons to arts and crafts, to mindfulness and family fitness. Each day and for free, to help keeping families entertained during lockdown.
Read MoreDrone company DJI has activated a Disaster Relief Program to equip public safety agencies across the US with drone hardware and software to help fight COVID, with 100 drones deployed so far. ‘Pandemic drones’ can detect sneezing and coughing, and measure temperature, indicating possible medical concerns.
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