Tehran municipality and volunteer work in Corona pandemic

Tehran Municipality, with extensive coordination, provided the possibility of volunteer groups. Groups that produced and distributed masks and hygiene items, groups that disinfected places, and groups that distributed food packages to the needy were able to provide their services with the help of the Tehran Municipality. Pirouz Hanachi Tehran Mayor during the visiting thousands of food packages prepared for the needy said: All donors, volunteers, Tehran municipality and Basij forces are working to create a database so that the process of distributing food and health packages could be done fairly. Faezeh Dolati is cultural deputy of Tehran 7 district municipality mentioned: The municipality of borough seven, as one of the twenty-two boroughs of Tehran, provides various services to the citizens such as: holding entertainment activities like street carnivals in the neighborhoods. In this way, people by respecting social distance, can watch and enjoy from their homes. Managing and coordinating voluntary services, for example We produced around 2 million face masks with participation of local volunteers. Preparing and Distributing nonperishable food packages for impacted families in collaboration with local businesses In order to participating in social responsibility. Transforming neighborhoods centers into covid-19 service centers for monitoring and screening to help health care system and finally, identifying vulnerable people and those who lost their jobs due to Corona virus crisis while distributing health packages Mehdi Shirzad headquarters office of organizing social participation in Tehran mucipality about about Tehran voluntary work during the lockdown said: Fairly speaking, they did absolutely great with the fight against the coronavirus outbreak, and with collecting donations. So did mosque Imams and all who do social work there. Youth volunteer groups also helped a lot in the neighborhoods. This proved that urban crisis management is almost impossible without citizens help. The municipalitys most important achievement was the creation of a platform to connect NGOs to volunteers. So citizens can upload their resumes on this platform and then join events organized by NGOs, or even hold their own charity events. Tehran Volunteer group preparing 3500 hot meals every day Mostafa Foroutan who is Heydaraneh Campaign Manager said: A number of Volunteer groups joined forces and created the Heydaraneh movement to be able to produce more comprehensive work during the coronavirus outbreak. In the beginning, like many other groups, and since we didnt know how to exactly combat the virus, we began our activities by disinfecting public places, and later produced and distributed face masks. In the next phase, and on the recommendation of hospitals, we started making a gravy-like puree from quail meat extract and medicinal herbs. The movement also managed to prepare and distribute about 4000 essential food parcels for needy families. We also collected donations for those directly impacted by the outbreak. Hossein Bolandimonfared director of volunteer group that preparing food said: During the coronavirus outbreak, with the help of other volunteer groups, we have been preparing 3500 high quality hot meals every day. Making fresh fruit juice for hospitals is another thing our group has done. A supervisor from the health ministry would oversee the whole process 24/7 to make sure the product meets health standards. I should stress that we received an unprecedented amount of volunteer help for the supply, preparation and distribution of the meals. The level of participation was much higher than during the 2019 floods and Kermanshahs 2017 earthquake. Iranians have proven to be people of hard times. While people in other parts of the world were forming long queues outside supermarkets, and even seen fighting, Iranians were standing in line for voluntary work. This is really valuable that people care about one another in thi

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