Apr 16,2020

Optimism and proactivity against the COVID-19 pandemic

Apr 16,2020

Optimism and proactivity against the COVID-19 pandemic

How we help with simple volunteer actions, read through the story of our Melita. Melita Zivković, a proactive volunteer at the Kolajna charity association, wondering how and to whom she can help, decided to take action to help those on the front line of defense against the virus corona - health workers at KB Dubrava in Zagreb, Croatia. In just few hours, she collected over 130 T-shirts among her friends and other volunteers of the association and delivered them. This is how she described her motivation: Although young and not prepared enough for the world, and for the situation where a cruel illness takes several hundred people a day, I was thinking that the only thing we can do is listen to the measures taken and stick to them. Talking to a friend who is a nurse at KB Dubrava and who was preparing for a 14-day hospital stay, a 14-day separation from her family that day, I simply had to do something, and her answer just beware of me, yet more encouraged that I needed to do something. She told me, among other things, that they lacked the white cotton T-shirts that they changed on a daily basis, I contacted my fellow volunteers for help to help as soon as possible. Of course, they immediately turned on, and that same night they started washing, ironing, the T-shirts I had taken over with my husband the other day at several locations in the city. We immediately took it to KB, where we were greeted by security guards, and when we saw our T-shirt boxes, which we eventually listed around 120, a small smile erupted from the worried face. And that sense of fear has now been replaced by a sense of satisfaction, because in a small way we have helped those who guard us and fight for us, because only in communion can we emerge from this struggle as victors." Sometimes just a little at this time of self-isolation is enough to help fight the virus. Few T-shirts or a round of applause ... It's up to us to connect and think of each other. Photo credit: China Daily