Choosing to help a certain category (moreover likely to be less exposed than average, moreover scattered across each country) in an overwhelming emergency is both practical infeasible and unethical.
Money is probably not the top one need (instead of some specific goods/resources) but we don't have anything better to offer. WMF is quite full of money which surely cannot be spent on anything more worth than this. Moreover lobbying for this: https://healthpolicy-watch.news/who-welcomes-un-security-council-resolution/ should be considered. Vito Il giorno sab 24 apr 2021 alle ore 20:39 Chris Keating < chriskeatingw...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > >> Personally I feel, insuring individuals against COVID-19 or helping >> people to get vaccines or sending other supports can be better handled >> locally by local affiliates (or local committees as proposed by Tito, >> whichevers seems fit) instead of a central organization like WMF. Local >> affiliates have better information about the vulnerable section of the >> community, government orders concerning the available vaccines, local >> market value of insurance premiums, vaccines, disinfectants etc. Sometimes >> they even have the money and/or the intention to extend this kind of >> support too, all they need is just a permission from the donor i.e. WMF >> Grants team. >> > > The more I think about this, the more I come to think that we should at > least attempt it. > > It might be unusual for a nonprofit to provide this kind of support to its > volunteers, but this is a truly exceptional situation. And while the entire > world is struggling with Covid, the nature of the struggle is deeply > different in most wealthy countries compared to what India is going through > now. And India will probably not be the last nation to see its healthcare > system not just threatened but entirely overwhelmed. > > Of course the WMF is not going to be able to start airlifting > Wikimedia-branded vaccines or oxygen supplies, but there must be some form > practical help that can be given to support Wikimedia volunteers. > > Regards, > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >
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