Getting involved during the coronavirus pandemic

It's about becoming active and how you can engage meaningfully during the coronavirus pandemic. Many people experience a sense of powerlessness and helplessness during coronavirus, as they are restricted in their usual environment. Older people, who as a risk group are losing their few social contacts. Younger people who are no longer receiving support for their education due to coronavirus. That's why it's important to volunteer and help even during the global pandemic. There are more than enough people who would be infinitely delighted by such support!

Organisations that welcome active support: 

• The Malteser Integration Service and their coronavirus aid:

Here you can provide online tuition for primary and secondary school students from families with refugee experience and migrant families and thus provide them with enormous support in language learning, because no child should have to receive inadequate education during the pandemic. You can also provide assistance with computer use, here possibly also by telephone (further information at https://www.malteser-bayern.de/corona-hilfe-wuerzburg.html).

• Briefwechsel Würzburg:

If you enjoy writing letters and would also like to cultivate a pen pal friendship with someone from an older generation, this project should be just right for you. You're not only bringing great joy to yourself, but also to residents of care homes who receive little visits during the pandemic and thus experience no variety through contact. Through this meaningful action, wonderful friendships can develop that go beyond just a brief correspondence (You can find out more at https://www.briefwechsel-wue.de/ ). 

• Corona School:

As a student, you can support pupils here via video chat with their learning and also advise them on questions about studying. Through this project, you have the valuable opportunity to engage socially and be a great help to students seeking assistance. (Information and registration options can be found at https://www.corona-school.de/ ). 

• Helping Hands App:

This shopping app is currently being tested in Bamberg and Würzburg and makes it possible for purchases by people seeking help to be taken over by helpers. So you too can make a meaningful contribution in your free time by taking over the trip to the supermarket for people who cannot leave the house because of the risk of infection (you can also find out more online at www.helping-hands.app ). 

• Bringing joy with pictures:

If you enjoy taking photos of nature and would like to bring joy to care home residents, you can send snapshots you've taken to the respective facilities. These are then displayed on large screens and allow people there to both follow the changes in nature and possibly revive beautiful memories. (This is possible via the Marie-Jucharcz-Haus care home on Jägerstraße in Würzburg. The person responsible is Frau Bauer, who can be reached at the following email address eva.bauer@awo-unterfranken.de .)