CASA - "Campaña Solidaria COVID-19"

Comunidad Ampliada San Andrés (CASA)

Campaña Solidaria de Emergencia Covid 19

2020 was a different and challenging year for everyone. In no corner of the planet was anyone exempt from the unexpected pandemic. And so it was that back in April when all of the Comunidad Ampliada San Andrés organisations decided to get closer to those who needed it most. And that is what we did: we developed different projects to which many people joined, responding to the needs of the neighbours and the organisations we work with, mainly in San Fernando and Vicente López.

Following, we share with you a summary of our joint work.

We printed 1224 Protective Face Shields on 3D printers and delivered them to 30 organisations in San Fernando so that people in charge of caring for others could continue to do so.

30 volunteer seamstresses worked in 27 virtual sewing workshops throughout the year, each one in their own home, sewing 4,624 face masks that we gave to families from different organisations in San Fernando. 293 soft toys were made to celebrate Children’s Month.

We created a Psychological Containment Network with 50 volunteer health professionals who attended to individual cases, gave open talks to the community, advised work teams and much more.

18 volunteers accompanied elderly people in Vicente López.

We delivered 26,306 kgs of food, assisting more than 450 families month by month from April to December

We delivered night tables, pillows, mattresses, masks, isolation gowns and more than 117,000 face masks with the aim of helping to equip mobile hospitals in Vicente López and collaborating with the provision of supplies and protection equipment at the Hospital Municipal San Cayetano and the Hospital Provincial de San Fernando.

Through a network of 50 volunteers in the Proyecto de Tutorías de Acompañamiento Escolar (school tutoring project), we coached over 60 children and teenagers from 4 staterun rural schools and 1 parochial school in San Fernando, as well as children of staff from St. Andrew’s School.

We prepared and delivered didactic materials, both physically and virtually, to different educational organisations.

Some 50 people donated blood through two Blood Donation Days organised jointly with the British Hospital in Vicente Lopez.

We designed the CASA web page with open and free resources generated by all the organisations of the Comunidad Ampliada San Andrés: www.comunidadsanandres.org

Community Support

Thanks to the Campaign we were able to raise $ 4,181,560, which were used mainly to make food deliveries to over 450 families with whom we had worked, on a monthly and regular basis, since the beginning of the Campaign. They were also allocated to the purchase of equipment, teaching materials, cell phone charges and administrative expenses for the management of the rest of the initiatives carried out within the Campaign framework.

With the intention of spreading the desire to help and turn it into action, in the second semester we developed several initiatives to continue raising funds:

QUIZ NIGHT TRIVIAS SAN ANDRÉS SAN ANDRÉS LIVE FACE MASKS DONATIONS

In 2020, more than 150 volunteers joined us and 16 companies accompanied us with their donations.

Together, we worked in partnership with 46 organisations throughout the year!

We closed 2020 with the certainty that working together enriches us and allows us to maximise our results in these in difficult and challenging times. We appreciate the support of the many people, companies and organisations that joined the helping campaign. And for the many proposals for new projects, the deep learning and the opportunities to help. This year the St. Andrew’s community was more united than ever. And, what is even more important, together, we could be closer to those who need it most.

Camila Vilcinskas

Community & Outreach Director