With the introduction of the regime of self-isolation all educational institutions were transferred to distance education. And while the teachers and teachers used new technologies, and students and students evaluated the benefits of home education, heads of leading universities of the country tried to solve problems that grew like a snowball.
it was Necessary to support older teachers – employed, and pensioners, to ensure the safety of students to prevent the spread of infection in the dorms. But times of crisis helps bring together. And one of the best examples of such cooperation was the joint program of Moscow state University Oleg Deripaska’s Fund “Volnoe Delo”.
at the beginning of the pandemic, the Foundation organized at MSU volunteer corps, bringing together 200 students and postgraduates. For nearly three months, the volunteers solved the most burning questions. Volunteers at least four times a day conducted disinfection of the seven campuses, so students living in them, could stay in Moscow. In 2.5 months they gave the teachers and students 5400 sets of products, medicines, basic necessities and protection.
With the help of volunteers, teachers, MSU was able to re-establish a life in an unfamiliar reality – to connect the Internet, to develop a platform for online communication, to opportunity in terms of access mode to get to the clinic. Volunteers carefully watched over the observance of safety standards in the conditions of a pandemic – they were all provided with overalls, masks, gloves, antiseptics and non-contact thermometers.
the Second important task that helped Fund “Volnoe Delo”, was the organization of the work of the hospital, created on the basis of the medical scientific and educational center of Moscow state University. The employees of the hospital, the Foundation has provided comfortable living conditions, and three meals a day, provided you need when working with Kovalam protective equipment – coveralls, respirators, masks, and disinfectants. Total for program support MSU during a pandemic Fund “Volnoe Delo” has allocated more than 42 million rubles.
the Foundation for social innovation support “Volnoe Delo” (http://volnoe-delo.ru) is one of the largest organizations in the field of charity, philanthropy and volunteerism. The Fund was founded in 1998 by industrialist Oleg Deripaska.
During the period of the pandemic Fund “Volnoe Delo” has sent more than one million medical masks and other personal protective equipment in the Russian regions and more than 350 thousand units of personal protective equipment – in a Moscow hospital. The Foundation also gave the regions 12 ambulances and launched a programme of distance learning of doctors on the use of mechanical ventilation and treatment of respirator resuscitator to��diseases.
In April, the Fund was transferred to the Central district hospital of Ust-Labinsk 14 of the ventilator and installed in public places in the city tech sanitizer for contactless treatment of hands and temperature measurement.
In may, the Fund directed to the Krasnodar regional clinical hospital №1 of Ust-Labinskiy CRB party of personal protective equipment for healthcare personnel – 5 thousand anti-plague suits, 6 thousand of respirators 4 thousand points and 5 thousand Shoe covers.
Also in conjunction with the MSU Foundation “Volnoe Delo” has launched a platform for distance learning of doctors on the use of mechanical ventilation and treatment of respiratory diseases, published a series of educational video interviews “What you need to know about COVID-19” and produced a course of lectures on Virology. Interviews and lectures available on the channel in YouTube of the Fund.
