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Volunteering During the Pandemic
Volunteering in a Pandemic BY CODY REGESTER
With the current pandemic, it can Right now, many senior citizens be hard to find safe volunteering in nursing homes are not able to opportunities. Even with everything see their families due to the new going on right now, there are still lockdown. You could speak to a ways for you to help out in your coordinator from a nursing home community. asking what you could do for them,
A couple of easy ways to help like video calling with residents, from home are by making masks for or hosting a Zoom bingo game for essential workers, the CDC has a them. tutorial on its website which you can find at cdc.gov. Or you could prepare meal kits for others. The Red Cross has a Digital Advocate program where you can help by posting calls to action on social media. one option would be becoming a digital tutor. Because of the pandemic, it can be hard for some students to keep up with school work, digitally tutoring someone could give them the advantage that they need to succeed in school. If you do want to virtually tutor kids you can use a site like learntobe.org.
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Source: Unsplash Even during a global pandemic when it can be hard for anything to feel normal, there are still ways for Source: archives.gov you to help out in your community
If you would like to help everyone. document history, you could These activities can be submitted volunteer as a citizen archivist, for community service or work which means that you would help experience education hours. To transcribe documents to keep a submit these as community service digital record of history, a great place hours you must have a parent or to start would be archives.gov. guardian, as well as a supervisor, sign
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