Covid-19 Emergency in Italy. We need you!

During 2021, IBO Italia's commitment continued in16 Italian cities thanks to the work of our collaborators.

In this year we have offered 30 hours of training to our collaborators, by IBO Itay and other organizations. The training was delivered remotely on the Zoom platform.

We have set up an online platform to manage, coordinate and encourage the autonomous work of collaborators. They worked  individually and in groups for each city. We have identified for each city a coordinator, who could facilitate communication between the organization and other collaborators and volunteers.

The young collaborators were involved in activities, especially online, which could respond to the needs of elderly people, people with disabilities or temporarily in isolation.

In the first period of service, the young collaborators presented and tested the two tools made available:  the platform SPORTAMIACASA and the IBO Mi Aiuta APP in their city to a total of 451 Associations and 27 Municipalities, Territorial Poles and Service Centers for volunteering.

We activated a volunteer recruitment campaign for the associations that give them the possibility to expand the services.

At Christmas 2021 we promoted the Campaign "A gift for Solidarity" in 11 Italian cities.  In the period November-December we searched shops and we actived a volunteer recruitment campaign and in the period 8-24 December they were involved in the gift wrapping for elderly people and only in some cases, we have delivered the gifts at home.

Thanks to this campaign we have involved 152 volunteers and offered the service to over 7,000 people.

This is what we have done in recent months, hopefully this new year brings good news.

We thank you for your invaluable support!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, and THANK YOU AGAIN,

Linda

Dear donor,

we hope that you and your family are well and the pandemic situation in your country has improved.

Fortunately, in Italy the vaccination campaign continues, and we are slowly returning to normal life.

But, as we often say, after Covid-19, none of us are like bofore. This is even more true for non self-sufficient people, especially elderly and people with disabilities, who have been denied their sociability in the last 2 years.

These people, already quite alone, found themselves even more lonely.

In these days, we are training almost 100 operators, from our association and other associations, throughout the national territory, for 6 months they will engage to map services for non self-sufficient people (free and on demand) and they will activate a recruitment of volunteers to support these associations.

Also we strarted a proces of involvement of employees of large companies, by actions of corporate volunteering in their territories.

We continue to be close to non self-sufficient people every day.

Thanks to the digital platform “Sportamiacasa”, and the APP “IBOMIAiuta” we will put IBO's volunteers and its beneficiaries in contact every day.

We expect to involve, in the next 6 months, 500 organizations and 2.500 people.

Our commitment to non self-sufficient people does not stop, but we can continue to do this, only thanks to your support.

Thank you with all my heart,

Linda