Subject: Online Volunteering Hub for Medical Students
From: "McNeil, Alix" <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Doe, Niccolo" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:25:07 +0000

Dear Gutenberg Team,

We are 2 medical students from University College London and have recently created a centralised volunteering hub on Facebook for medical students that have gone home abroad (i.e. EU and International students) or are unable to leave their houses in the UK during the current lockdown. On this Facebook group, medical students can access opportunities for online volunteering that they can do in their homes to help out the NHS, as well as other health and social care services affected by the coronavirus pandemic. We've been inspired by the overwhelming response from medical students still in the UK and wanted to do our bit, even though we haven't been physically able to undertake some of the volunteering opportunities that have been shared with us up until now.

Our rationale for trying to create this hub is to provide ready and willing students at UK medical schools a platform to access relevant online volunteering services, as well as to provide these services with access to a pool of volunteers who are determined and have:

Up to date DBS checks

Relevant skills for a health and social care setting

A requirement to adhere to the Good Samaritan Law

We are just writing to ask whether you, or a representative from Project Gutenberg would be willing to post on our group in order to raise awareness of your organisation; we think volunteering remotely to help expand the internet's collection of knowledge would be a great opportunity for the students on our group. The group can be found here: C.O.V.I.D. - Connecting Online Volunteers Internationally & Domestically<https://www.facebook.com/groups/2635351770123222/>.

Thank you very much, we’re looking forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,

Niccolo Doe and Alix McNeil