Vodafone Romania Foundation announces several initiatives in response to COVID-19 crisis

Vodafone Romania Foundation contributes to the support of the Romanian society through several initiatives in partnership with the Government and other Authorities, as well as NGOs, in response to COVID-19 crisis.

Thus, Vodafone Romania Foundation sponsored the acquisition of a testing machine and 5,000 tests for the triage center in Arad, which will be used by Arad County Hospital, DSP (Health Public Direction) and ISJU (County State Inspectorate for Emergency) to test people coming to Romania via Nadlac border.

Also, Vodafone Romania Foundation has bought medical equipment for Marie Curie Hospital, consisting in 100 individual inhalers for the neonatology section, 50 air pumps, 5 air purifiers for larger spaces and 5 mini-inhalers.

Children and teachers in rural areas of Romania can continue the educational activities online, in an efficient and interactive way, through the digital educational platform, offered by the Vodafone Romania Foundation within the School in a Box program. Vodafone Romania Foundation has also partnered with CISCO, IBM, and World Vision to offer free Webex licenses to teachers for 180 days. With the help of this platform, teachers can hold classes in real time, through video-conference, while having all their students present, even if they are remote. Moreover, on March 23rd, teachers who want to learn how to hold their classes online can participate in a free webinar where teachers already enrolled in the School in a Box program will share their knowledge.

Vodafone Romania Foundation is also supporting Cumparaturi la usa ta (Shopping at Your Door) initiative, developed by Geeks for Democracy association, through which volunteers can help elderly and other quarantined people by bringing them food and medicines. Vodafone Romania Foundation contributed by providing a call center, as well as phones and communication services enabling volunteers to take up calls.

Together with ING Bank and the Romanian-American Foundation, Vodafone Romania Foundation is supporting 6 new digital solutions developed by Code4Romania and run in partnership with the Romanian Government and The Agency for the Digital Agenda of Romania (AADR). The first one is stirioficiale.ro, a platform meant to gather in a single place all the official information issued by the Romanian authorities regarding the COVID crisis.