Giving and Getting Support During the COVID19 Outbreak
Giving and getting support while staying safe:
It brightens up the world to see how others help each other through these uncertain times! Staying indoors presents special challenges to helping others and making meaningful connections in our communities. Here at Zharity, we want to share ideas for supporting each other, digitally! Whether you are looking for support or you are looking for ways to help others, here are some ideas that we have put together for the Zurich area and beyond. Let's stay strong and healthy together!
Reaching out to your Gemeinde (your neighborhood community center) could help you and your fellow neighbors come together during this time.
The Zurich-based organization, tsüri has developed a facebook page, Gern gscheh - Tsüri hilft <3 offering a place for people to connect and support each other.
Solidarity Now has developed a site with additional need-to-know information. If you are looking for a group to join in your local area, they recommend linking to hilft-jetzt.ch, which offers connections to supportive groups across Switzerland, including almost every Kreis in Zurich.
Five Up, an app recommended by Canton Zurich, facilitates a helping hand to volunteers locally seeking to coordinate support with those who are in need of care, easily can be downloaded via the App Store or Google Play.
Organizers from Support Group in Zurich on Facebook have created support for mental health, resources, pets, shopping and online support. Click here to see how you could help others or how others could help you, available in Zurich, Luzern and Bern.
For further information on how to help and support the community, please check out the news articles by Lokal Info AG and Swiss Info.
Around the globe, people are coming together to share and help as much as possible :
Some Australian’s are using the ‘Next Door’ App to help out their neighbours and keep in touch with their local community.
Feeding America has developed foodbanks in the US. They created a fund drive to help families get the food they need during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Are there other organizations that you know are doing things to help connect and support people through the coronavirus, locally or globally? Please share them with us or leave a comment here and we’ll get them posted!
This is a world-wide effort and we are thinking positively during this time. Lastly we would like to thank all the efforts and sacrifices done by the emergency and health care workers. A round of applause for the Heroes!