Resources For Helping Others

Besides finding and sharing peace and calm, the other thing we each can do is help the people around us, and those in the most need. If you do this, it will not only help you as an individual, but if enough of us do this, it will change for the better who we are as a community and as a country. Help your neighbors and friends as much as you can, and if you have the resources, here are some organizational efforts that seem to be responding in a valuable way to this crisis:

Volunteer East Tennessee
https://www.volunteeretn.org/search?sort_c=&sort_o=&opportunity_id=&page=1

Knoxville Boys and Girls Club is providing food for children out of school:
https://bgctnv.org

The Knox County School system is doing the same:
https://www.knoxschools.org/Page/21802

Meals on Wheels for the elderly and those most in need:
http://www.knoxseniors.org/mobile/

Second Harvest – providing food for those who need it:
https://secondharvestetn.org

Cherokee Health Systems provides a wide range of care for many people in our community who need medical, mental and emotional help
https://www.cherokeehealth.com/how-to-help

An organization that is focusing on people who need food:
https://www.expensify.org/hunger#reimbursement

A central location to find ways to help is the Knox County COVID-19 Response Fund: https://www.uwgk.org

We don’t know how the spread of COVID-19 is affecting these organizations, but all of them are continuing to provide help in some way. Contact the ones that seem most valuable to you to find out how you might help.

And here are two articles that suggest various ways we can help:
How You Can Help During The Coronavirus Outbreak – The Washington Post

9 Ways To Help Others During The Coronavirus Pandemic – The Idealist