Community.
(n.) a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
On this page, we present to you a collection of stories our COVID19 Recovery team has investigated!
There is No War in Ba Sing Se: London in Lockdown
The UK went into official lockdown on 23 March, but the signs of the oncoming pandemic were already visible by then. The week before, I tried to buy pasta only to find it sold out across three supermarkets. My friends and family were sent home from their jobs long before the government said to do anything…One day we will be able to meet in large groups, eat at restaurants, and shop for groceries at a leisurely pace. I cannot say when. For now, I can only hope that we can hold out a little longer.
"One shirt can provide 20 meals" - All Together International sold t-shirts globally to help vulnerable individuals
All Together International is a fundraiser with a simple premise: “buy a t-shirt, join a global community, feed 20 people who really need it.” The fundraiser was started by Anne Leathers and Stefanie Sebald, who, after being laid off and furloughed due to COVID-19 safeguarding measures, found their priorities had vastly changed. They soon realised that “food, shelter and community support needed to be our focus”.
“You Donate… We Deliver” provides over 2,000 meals per day to frontline workers
“Yes, we might be doing a lovely thing, but we are not the people sweating in PPE. [...] And yes, what we do is hard; but compare that to watching someone die on a ventilator - I don’t think there’s a question of whether we carry on.”
PhD Student at Oxford Uses His Engineering Skills to Help His Community
Andrew Wang, a PhD student in engineering at the University of Oxford is using his engineering skills to make hand sanitizers for his community.