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The responses required to the COVID-19 pandemic remind us that we can each do something to #maketheworld better.

COVID-19 Action Hub

Welcome. The COVID-19 Action Hub helps individuals and organisations to take positive action locally and globally related to COVID-19.

– Are you already taking action related to COVID-19?
– Or do you want to take action?
– Scale Up: Do you want to share or connect your actions, your expertise and your energy, so that we all have greater impact locally or globally?

Then you are in the right place. Everyone can do something and we celebrate both small and big actions. Please learn more below, share your actions and celebrate the actions of others and connect for greater impact. If you want to interact with others passionate about this, then you can also login to the UPG Forum.

In this challenging global time: THANK YOU for taking action!

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 ‘’We can not say this loudly enough or clearly enough or often enough: All countries can still change the course of this pandemic” 
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Director General of the World Health Organization.

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COVID-19: Eradicating Hunger

COVID-19: Eradicating Hunger among migrants and poor farmers in India As COVID-19 pushed new population groups into hunger (or back into hunger) KAUSHALYA Foundation (KF), a Bihar-based NGO, raised money and partnered with different organizations to extend assistance to vulnerable sections of the society. KF has served more than 49.65 …

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Re-skilling Nigerian Youth

Re-skilling Nigerian Youth against COVID-19 caused problems Firstly, the novel coronavirus has handicapped economic activities, resulting to the loss of jobs of many Nigerian youths, leading to the increase in crime rates, mental break down and state of depression. Now, the unemployed youths are actively participating in criminal atrocities in …

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COVID-19 Rapid Response Project

COVID-19 Rapid Response Project SUMMARY: Strategy and Innovation for Development Initiative deployed over 50 volunteers to 30 communities in Nigeria to distribute food, COVID-19 relief materials to vulnerable people living in a poor community, and Personal Protective Equipment to community hospitals, SI4DEV also gave out mini-grants to 18 NGOs and …

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A deserted Piazza Navona on April 1 in Rome, during the third week after the Italian government mandated a nationwide lockdown.Photo: Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images
Paris’s La Concorde square empty at rush hour.Photo: ©Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Photos
In Nairobi, Kenya, volunteers from Sonko Rescue Team, an NGO privately funded by Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko, fumigate a street on April 6 to curb the spread of COVID-19.Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP via Getty Images
A nearly empty road in Mumbai, as India continues its nationwide lockdown to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.Photo: Himanshu Bhatt/NurPhoto via Getty Images
A high-street thoroughfare in Montreal in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown.Photo: Zied Ben Romdhane / Magnum
Zócalo Capitalino in Mexico City’s historic center is almost empty during the afternoon of April 6.Photo: Medios y Media/Getty Images
An aerial view of almost no traffic on normally clogged Interstate 210 in Pasadena, California, on April 6. Los Angeles County authorities are warning of a spike in coronavirus infections this week.Photo: David McNew/Getty Images
Stores were closed on Cairo’s Al-Moez Street, where the Egyptian government imposed a two-week curfew, during which all public transportation in the city was suspended.Photo: Ziad Ahmed/NurPhoto via Getty Images
An April 4 view of Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the COVID-19 pandemic.Photo: Bruna Prado/Getty Images
A small public-park playground cordoned off with police tape in Ghent, Belgium.Photo: © Bieke Depoorter / Magnum Photos
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