<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Volunteering on Afroleft</title><link>https://afroleft.com/tag/volunteering/</link><description>Recent content in Volunteering on Afroleft</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 20:49:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://afroleft.com/tag/volunteering/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Visors for Healthcare Workers</title><link>https://afroleft.com/visors/</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2020 12:52:31 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://afroleft.com/visors/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Healthcare Workers are seeing Covid-19 patients without the appropriate protective equipment. &lt;a href="https://github.com/DoESLiverpool/covid19"&gt;A group of us&lt;/a&gt; from Manchester and Liverpool are sourcing materials, producing PPE and connecting small scale manufacturers directly with healthcare workers and centrally with hospital procurement teams across the North West, UK.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;hr&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;Update:&lt;/code&gt; We now have a website for this project.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;a class="gh-button gh-button-primary" href="http://ppe.doesliverpool.com" style="font-size: 1.8rem;" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;DoES Protective Equipment →&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;small style="display: block; font-size: 1.4rem;"&gt;Head there to see how you can help :)&lt;/small&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&#10;&lt;hr&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;To help get protective equipment visors, we are:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Back to School</title><link>https://afroleft.com/back-to-school/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:28:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://afroleft.com/back-to-school/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I spent most of Wednesday helping out at Liverpool&amp;rsquo;s Cardinal Heenan School for an &lt;a href="http://cardinal-heenan.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=452&amp;amp;catid=34&amp;amp;Itemid=160&amp;amp;lang=en"&gt;Enterprise Day&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Apart from having great fun and a school dinner, I worked with the students on a proper roll your sleeves-up day of taking a product from idea through to pitching a concept.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;I think my quote wraps-up the day nicely:&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;blockquote&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;First things first; taking a product from idea through to concept is more than difficult. Add to that a time constraint of a school day, product pitches, adverting campaigns and financial planning &lt;em&gt;and we&amp;rsquo;re really talking.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>