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The volunteer movement has swept all regions of Russia. Volunteers assist elderly people at risk for coronavirus infection and people who find themselves in isolation. According to the chairman of the Association of Volunteer Centers Artyom Metelev, members of the all-Russian Constitutional Volunteers corps undergo retraining to help people during the coronavirus epidemic, Lenta.ru reports. In Russian cities, volunteers deliver food, medicine and essential goods, as well as walk dogs, take out garbage and sew medical masks, Baikal24 news agency reported.
In Tulun and Ust-Kut (the cities of the Irkutsk region), volunteers were involved in eliminating the shortage of medical masks and sewed 3600 masks last weekend. The items were handed out to the elderly people, urban transport drivers and service workers.
In Moscow, social volunteers work in all 125 districts, the Moscow News Agency reports. Every day, volunteers with protective equipment do about 250 good deeds. The department of labor and social protection of the population of the Russian capital reports that 70% of requests are related to dog walking, and professional dog handlers help Muscovites in this.
A volunteer center has opened in Naryan-Mar and calls from those in need of assistance are received around the clock. In Tula, food and medicine at the request of citizens are brought to the house by volunteers and social protection workers. They delivered everything needed to more than 300 residents of the city. In Kazan, the Zakat charity foundation of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims organized the distribution of grocery sets to single elderly people.
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