Hello all,

I just want to share that Wikimedia Indonesia has started the initiative since last year. We have disbursed a healthy package - we call it, wellness package - to our active community members. They are indeed very valuable and most of them are vulnerable. Vaccine is another story, since our country still prioritizes the most needed first. 

Read more of the story in here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2019-2020_round_2/Wikimedia_Indonesia/Progress_report_form

Best,

Pada tanggal Kam, 29 Apr 2021 pukul 14.08 Rajeeb <marajozkee@gmail.com> menulis:
Hello everyone,

Hope my mail finds you all in the best of health and spirits. I like to thank Tito and Bodhi for coming up with this initiative and starting the conversation. Now, WMF has permitted CIS-A2K to allot funds to reimburse vaccines, send COVID protection kits and provide counselling for Wikimedia volunteers in India. 
A noble initiative for humanity has begun and I am sure the days are not too far where we all will be healthy and happy with our families, relatives and friends.

Last but not the least, I am always there for my Wiki Community, for anything and everything, anyone wants to speak with me, please feel free to contact me.

Wishing everyone and their families a healthy and happy life.

Namaste,

Rajeeb.









On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 20:55, Samuel Klein <meta.sj@gmail.com> wrote:
Something like this could definitely make a real difference, GN -- either enhancing and focusing pages on WP, or standing up a COVID-19 dedicated site that could draw from other projects.  

At the same time we could also set aside funds to ensure that communityresources is well staffed at this time.
A federated approach like this to explicitly support regional partners, in coordination with other regional sponsors, could work. (Candid has a catalog of similar efforts).

SJ


On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:04 AM Gnangarra <gnangarra@gmail.com> wrote:
Our best skill is collecting, collating, and sharing knowledge, we have connections deep into communities and countries across the globe.

In a small way we have networks and we could get limited support medically to a handful of volunteers, in some ways that will have made feel as if we have done some to help then we can go back to our meetings, our events, our adding a few more articles.

Perhaps its time we took our big stick and put the right knowledge where it can be found quickly, turn over the main pages to Wikimed get more useful support information about reducing transmission risks. We can use our resources to get knowledge about how bad it is to wider audiences, importantly link our volunteers into other organisations and help this knowledge with support to wherever ground zero is.  We can put our skill sets to translations and knowledge distribution so everyone can learn.


On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 at 02:38, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Personally I feel, insuring individuals against COVID-19 or helping people to get vaccines or sending other supports can be better handled locally by local affiliates (or local committees as proposed by Tito, whichevers seems fit) instead of a central organization like WMF. Local affiliates have better information about the vulnerable section of the community, government orders concerning the available vaccines, local market value of insurance premiums, vaccines, disinfectants etc. Sometimes they even have the money and/or the intention to extend this kind of support too, all they need is just a permission from the donor i.e. WMF Grants team.

The more I think about this, the more I come to think that we should at least attempt it.

It might be unusual for a nonprofit to provide this kind of support to its volunteers, but this is a truly exceptional situation. And while the entire world is struggling with Covid, the nature of the struggle is deeply different in most wealthy countries compared to what India is going through now. And India will probably not be the last nation to see its healthcare system not just threatened but entirely overwhelmed. 

Of course the WMF is not going to be able to start airlifting Wikimedia-branded vaccines or oxygen supplies, but there must be some form practical help that can be given to support Wikimedia volunteers.

Regards,

Chris
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