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They want, among other things, to create a large volunteer IT platform.
The Ministry of Social Policy is preparing new mechanisms to support the population during the winter period.
The ministry will establish a special emergency response hub, a Task Force, the head of the ministry Denis Ulutin said in a comment to LB.ua.
According to him, the main task of this initiative is to unite international partners, humanitarian organizations, and volunteers with those in need of help. Government officials rely on the experience of last year, when in the Desnianskyi, Darnyi and Dniprovsky districts of Kyiv, together with World Central Kitchen and the project “Food Without Borders,” they organized hot meals and involved food trucks.
Ulutin said that by the start of winter the ministry plans to launch a single IT platform that will consolidate information about all volunteers, their skills, and the types of help they can provide.
“The next step is to develop an IT platform where all volunteers can be connected within a single platform so that everyone knows who is where, what skills they have, who can provide what help. At a certain point, gamification of this process, awarding volunteers points for the activities they have performed. This will give them opportunities for training and other things, increasing volunteers’ involvement in state policy,” the minister said.
Social services are also proactively searching for people with limited mobility and those with multiple disabilities who, in winter, due to bad weather, will not be able to reach warming points on their own. Since there will not be enough government workers for everyone, a key role will be played by cooperation between social services and volunteers who will deliver hot meals and warm blankets directly to homes, Ulutin emphasized.
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