The task “Mapping the Fun and Concepts of COVID Volunteers” provides an exclusive reaction to coronavirus through volunteers in other countries and how the pandemic has impacted their livelihoods, families and communities.
The interactive map was compiled through the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and experts added academics from the Center for International Development at the University of Northumbria.
The task tells the stories of two hundred Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers from 44 other countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, who responded to the crisis in other ways.
The purpose was to link and unite the global network of Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers, explore how the pandemic was transforming execution methods, and harness the drive for global collaboration and transformation within the Red Cross and Red Crescent.
Volunteers were asked what they had learned from the coronavirus outbreak, what they had done as a reaction that engulfed them, the main demanding situations they had encountered as volunteers, what they had first noticed because of the coronavirus, and how hope can be. reaction to coronavirus has just been born.
Professor Matt Baillie Smith, co-director of the Northumbria Center for International Development, and graduate researcher Bianca Fadel conducted initial research into volunteer stories to identify key models and topics for their experiences.
Explaining the results, Bianca Fadel said: “We have known three other currents of feelings, from an individual, network and global point of view. Globally, volunteer stories have reinforced a sense of belonging and a non-unusual goal, unceding others. At the network level, there was a sense that volunteers saw the crisis as an opportunity, but they also had considerations about the existing and greater dangers associated with volunteering. On an individual level, we have noticed stories of heroism and daily sacrifice in the volunteer component, but at the same time the popularity of fragility and desires of volunteers and vulnerabilities, many volunteers as a means of dealing with the crisis. “
Professor Baillie Smith is an expert in researching the reports of volunteers around the world. In the past, he worked with the Swedish Red Cross to document reports of local volunteers running in conflict-affected areas. ) gathered knowledge from network volunteers working in Sudan, South Sudan, Ukraine, Honduras, Myanmar and Afghanistan to highlight their roles, reports and challenges.
He also leads the Refugee Youth Volunteering Uganda (RYVU) project, which explores voluntary paintings of displaced youth in Uganda and has an effect on skills, employability and inequality.