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  • Local Farmers Act Fast to Meet the Current Crisis

    April 09, 2020 |

    Edible Rhody |

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    Response Location: United States, Rhode Island

    In Rhode Island, a collaborative, farmer-run food delivery service has come together as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As farmers around the state saw massive declines in orders, they came together to create an online ordering service and deliver their food, things like produce, coffee, flowers, and eggs, themselves. Since inception, they saw immediate success and have been working to figure out how to scale and serve more people.

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  • High School Students Are Delivering Groceries To LA Seniors For Free

    April 09, 2020 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    What started as one high school student delivering groceries to her grandmother has turned into a full-fledged organization called Zoomers to Boomers. Another similar group called Shopping Helpers LA has also popped up in the area with 300 high school volunteers delivering 100 grocery requests per day.

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  • Isolation: Was wir von Astronauten lernen können

    April 09, 2020 |

    Der Standard |

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    Response Location: Austria

    Auf engem Raum, in einem streng getakteten Alltag und ohne frische Luft zu schnappen: Wie hält man es Monate im Weltraum und mit der Crew aus? Mit Respekt, Empathie, Kommunikation – und viel Übung.

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  • Glendale Community College's mobile food pantry meets a rising wave of need during pandemic

    April 09, 2020 |

    Glendale News-Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Glendale, California

    California’s Glendale Community College normally operates a food pantry, called Food for Thought Pantry, for its students. Forced to close to slow the spread of COVID-19, it partnered with the Los Angeles Food Bank and the Glendale Community College charitable foundation to create a mobile food pantry for students and their families. Collecting food from farmers, wholesalers, grocers, growers, and distributors, they served a line of over 1,000 vehicles in April.

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  • Did Ohio get it right? Early intervention, preparation for pandemic may pay off.

    April 09, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    By taking prompt action to shut down major tourist events and increase medical treatment capacity, Ohio’s early response to COVID-19 has, thus far, helped to temper the surge of confirmed cases in the state. Governor DeWine and the Cleveland Clinic began to mobilize resources prior to the state's first confirmed case. The Governor also suspended “The Arnold,” a popular fitness exposition in Columbus.

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  • Religiöse Feste in Corona-Zeiten

    April 09, 2020 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Während Corona überdenken viele Gelehrte die Vorschriften ihrer Religion, damit Gläubige auch während Corona Feste feiern wie Pessach oder Ramadan feiern können. Der Ermessensspielraum unterscheidet sich von Religion zu Religion – doch fast alle greifen auf technische Lösungen zurück.

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  • Operation Food Bank Feeds 390 Families

    April 09, 2020 |

    New Haven Independent |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    Due to COVID-19, the Connecticut Food Bank has not been able to staff their food pantry distributors and thus drop off food with no distribution help. The town of Hamden whipped up an army of volunteers in response to make sure that no families went without food during this trying times. Demand was so great that unfortunately, after distributing food to 357 cars, they had to turn away another 400 cars. Volunteers are dedicated to continuing this new makeshift food pantry every few weeks until supplies run out.

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  • 코로나 휴교령에… ‘온라인 원격교육' 실험 시작한 유럽[글로벌 현장을 가다]

    April 09, 2020 |

    동아일보 |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    휴교령이 장기화 되면서 유럽 주요국들은 온라인 교육을 대안책으로 삼고 새로운 시도들을 단행하고 있습니다. 기술 접근성 격차로 인한 혼란 등을 최소화하면서 일방향 교육 시스템을 어떻게 개선할 수 있는지에 대한 고민들이 함께 부각되고 있습니다.

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  • Local fundraisers provide meals to health care workers during pandemic

    April 08, 2020 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    Community members in North Carolina are crowdfunding campaigns to help provide meals to healthcare workers who are on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. Working with the hospital, the campaign organizers make sure to deliver enough meals for the number of staff working each day, while also rotating units "to reach as many people as possible."

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  • New Zealand has only 1 Covid-19 death. Here's what they're doing

    April 08, 2020 |

    CNN |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: New Zealand

    With just over 1,200 confirmed cases and only one death from COVID-19 at the time of the video's publication, New Zealand offers lessons to the world for pandemic response. The main lesson is act early, and act decisively. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand announced that it would be the first democratic country to close its borders just days after identifying its first few cases, with a nationwide shutdown just days after that.

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