FightPandemics: An innovative global platform connecting people with help amidst COVID-19 and future crises.

The FightPandemics platform is now available to individuals, communities and organisations across the globe

London, United Kingdom – 4 Dec 2020, 8 am GMT

Today, during their Stronger Together Summit, FightPandemics announced the launch of its altruistic platform to fight COVID-19 and bring communities together. The newly launched website is available in 20+ languages and aims to be the go-to place for anyone in need, whether they're seeking medical information, donations, legal assistance, PPE, groceries, or help with their day-to-day activities. Individuals, organisations and governments can find up-to-date information, publish offers and request help, not only in their local area but anywhere in the world, thus connecting those in need of assistance with those who can provide it.

In March, FightPandemics' founder Manuel Gonzalez Alzuru contracted COVID-19 while attending a conference in Paris. After returning to Barcelona, he struggled to find help since, even though there were many volunteer groups providing assistance in Spain, their efforts and resources were fragmented across various platforms and channels. Alzuru’s fight against COVID-19 was hard to overcome; after experiencing obstacles no one should have to face, the idea of FightPandemics began to take shape.

7 months on, FightPandemics is now an international organisation with a network of 1500+ volunteers from 70+ countries, who have contributed tens of thousands of hours to the creation of its online platform. According to Alzuru, “Information sharing and well-connected communities can save lives. We want to ensure that every offer of help is matched to a need and every request for help is met with a response; now and in the future. We believe that we can seize this challenging time to drive transformation."

Since its conception, FightPandemics has experienced unprecedented growth. The team has managed to attract donations in the form of software credits, subscriptions and additional resources that equate to a value of over $1m from major brand names such as Slack, Workable, Notion, Veriff, Zendesk and Amazon Web Services. Its volunteer numbers are equally impressive; since April, the organization has received more than 6,000 applications for volunteer roles.

Ultimately, their goal is to extend the platform’s capabilities to not only help tackle humanitarian crises but also empower communities by enabling them to pool money together, manage resources and make decisions collectively. As Alzuru states, “we have already received so much positive support from our partners and volunteers without even raising a single dollar in capital. This is evidence there is a strong belief in our cause and community support for FightPandemics’ mission. If we unite resources we can solve many of our world problems."

About FightPandemics

FightPandemics is a worldwide organisation with 1500 volunteers, and growing. They are pioneering the use of an altruistic platform that connects those in need of assistance and those who can provide it. They have listed over 2000 initiatives for philanthropic and social connection toward the fight against COVID-19. For more information visit their website, fightpandemics.com/about-us.

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For further information:
Manuel Gonzalez Alzuru, Founder, FightPandemics
Email: manuel@fightpandemics.com
General inquiries: pr@fightpandemics.com

Address: 9 E. Loockerman Street, Suite 311, City of Dover, County of Kent, 19901
Contact number: +1 952 314 2712

FightPandemics is a community of volunteers, local groups, researchers, philanthropists, investors, makers, creators, official institutions, and companies who are on a mission to fight COVID-19 and any future pandemic.

We are creating an altruistic meta-platform that brings people and organizations together so that they can finally find the resources and services they need as soon as they need it. FightPandemics links those who need help with those who can provide it.

In order to connect the two sides of the platform, we utilize a feed. Organizations or individuals will be able to post localized offers and request help with an expiration time to have relevant content at all times. Moreover, users will be able to filter the feed by location (city, state, country, world), by "poster" (individual, traditional company, etc.) and by type of help (groceries/food, medical supplies, education, legal, wellbeing/mental, entertainment, information, funding, R&D, tech and others).

Our platform will go LIVE containing +2,000 organizations, projects and initiatives that are tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. We have initially crowdsourced these initiatives and manually tagged them for the short-term bootstrapping period. However, to create a sustainable solution we want to cooperate with all the creators, initiatives, communities and governments.

This release was published on openPR.