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ACORN convenes first global Zoom call during COVID-19 pandemic
ACORN International board members, supported by their staff, convened in a first global Zoom call today. ACORN leaders from 15 countries and 20 affiliates joined the call and participated using translators and translation software.
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ACORN India: Mumbai Leader Featured in Washington Post
Laxmi Kamble our frontline field coordinator for distributing food provisions during covid 19 featured in the Washington Post story on Dharavi. In One of the World’s Largest Slums, the Fight Against Coronavirus has Turned into a Struggle to Survive.
ACORN Kenya: Organizing in Korogocho During Coronavirus
Report from Sammy Ndirangu, ACORN Kenya organizer.
It’s now nearly two months since the first case of Corona Virus was reported in Kenya. Currently there are 396 persons who have contacted the virus with a death toll of 17 people in the whole country with 144 people fully recovered from the infection. Nairobi has been on the lead of the highest number of infections followed by Mombasa.
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ACORN Peru on the Frontlines of COVID-19
Report from Orfa Camacho Guillinta, ACORN Peru.
In Peru, the Government decreed a Health Emergency on March 14th. We have 46 days in a state of emergency, with an order of social isolation.
(more…)ACORN India: Video of Food Relief Efforts
ACORN organizers distribute food to neighborhood residents
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