Since the outbreak of the pandemic, many countries have been struggling with hunger and food insecurity. To tackle the striking plunge of hunger, violence, and malnutrition the Brazilian organization Gastromotiva has been creating local jobs and teaching nutrition education to unprivileged communities. The organization also provides courses of free culinary, and social entrepreneurship training for
Sony Corporation established a relief fund of $100 million to support those affected by the coronavirus. “The “Sony Global Relief Fund” aims to provide assistance for frontline medical staff and other first responders, which includes medical staff, first responders, home-schooling teachers and children. In addition, this Fund support unemployed professionals from the creative and entertainment
Residents of Tsirang in Bhutan have been showing their gratitude to frontline workers by donating edible items, vegetables, livestock products, hand sanitizers, and firewood. Those contributions represent a noticeable step ahead as counted as one of the first donations addressed to the frontline professionals in the country. The community of Damphu, the capital district of
The “PENSIÓN 65” program is a payment service provided by the “Banco de la Nación de Perú” to people in conditions of extreme poverty from the age of 65. The Santo Toribio Catholic University of Mogrovejo (USAT) in Peru, in partnership with the National Pension 65 Program, launched the campaign Together We Can End Loneliness
An interesting solidarity initiative during the COVID-19 crisis has been developed by the Community of Madrid t in collaboration with numerous organizations for the #MadridVenceAlVirus hackathon. Among these organizations we can find a MediaLab Prado; the collaboration platform MIDE – Madrid Innovation Driven Ecosystem; the Madrid Institute for Advanced Software Studies (iMdea Software); the Ibero-American
The event sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, regarding the thematic of Feminism during the pandemic analyzed how the diverse women and Latin American LGBTQ+ communities have faced perpetuated key issues in these two years of the outbreak, much of them worsen by the COVID 19 pandemic. The virtual event brought two Anthropologists and
