Facebook Feature Allows People Offer Help In COVID-19 Pandemic
FACEBOOK – Social media giant Facebook recently launched a feature that lets COVID-19-affected people to reach out for help.
The company added a feature called Community Help four years ago which was one of the means to look for shelter, food or supplies during natural disasters. Recently, the COVID-19 crisis is now added in the roster for the feature.
Fidji Simo, head of the Facebook app, said that they were aiming to launch it ever since people starting for help, adding that they’ve been working for about two weeks at launching the feature.
Simo added that the feature recently reached far beyond countries and had to be linked to the COVID-19 information hub.
The giant set the default aid radius to 50 miles in the United States of America and 100 kilometers in other nations. The users can still have the option to set back the area in which they are available to help
Among the things to do in the feature include request or offer help from delivering groceries to psychotherapy.
For those who wish to aid by supporting COVID-19 relief efforts can donate cash via a UN-Facebook fundraiser, with donations up to a sum of $10 million.
It also said that it is adding means to look and donate to local fundraising campaigns.
As per the report, the giant added that it will still add efforts to give reliable, timely information about the pandemic and means to take action.
More than a billion people showed notifications about resources from health officials via the hub and “educational pop-up” notifications at socmed and Instagram ever since a COVID-19 info center was released a couple of weeks ago on the socmed giant.
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