This is an uplifting thread, positive ideas and initiatives only please
I am half British/half European. I am in constant contact with my family members from Italy and Central European countries and they shared some amazing local initiatives with me. I thought I'd share them on here as we all need our spirits lifted! And we can replicate them!
- Restaurants and catering businesses: shut to customers, but continue deliveries (50% capacity). Crowdfunding campaigns organised to raise money to keep them going at full capacity - the remaining 50% of the time they cook for the local NHS, for free. Meals on wheels delivered to hospital doors for all medical staff. People make less money, but they've kept their jobs and businesses afloat.
- Artists and theatre companies organising subscription channels to show their performances online. Individual artists performing to neighbours from balconies/outside their homes to cheer them up.
- Manufacturers switching to manufacturing items of necessity - particularly sanitising and hygiene products.
- Neighbours knocking on elderly/vulnerable neighbours' doors, chatting through the door and doing shopping for them. Call chains - every person calls two numbers on their phone list every other day to check if everything is OK. Chatting is so important.
- Professionals making welfare checks on their clients - this one comes from a lovely lade here on MN 💐 Vets, psychologists, priests, lawyers, you name it, everyone who works with others, particularly vulnerable.
- Day care for children on a rotation basis offered by neighbours/within the communities.
We're not in a lockdown yet, but we have to help each other. Please share your initiatives and ideas 💐
Fierce and fighting till the very end! Courage, Britain. We can do this together 💐💪