[The response of Turin volunteers (Piedmont Region, Northern Italy) during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic]

Epidemiol Prev. 2024 Jul-Oct;48(4-5):124-126. doi: 10.19191/EP24.4-5.S1.123.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

Voluntary associations played a decisive role during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This contribution reports on the experience of the Torino Street Care project, whose members carried out swabs in informal facilities, visits, drug distribution, reading examinations, and orientation interviews. They also provided social, legal, or bureaucratic help, distributed food and collaborated in the vaccination campaign. These activities enabled a relationship of trust to be created with the migrant population in the Piedmont Region (Northern Italy), also thanks to the clarity and the precision of the communication the volunteers had with the people they welcomed.

Keywords: Migrants; SARS-CoV-2; Voluntary associations.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 Vaccines
  • COVID-19* / epidemiology
  • COVID-19* / prevention & control
  • Humans
  • Italy / epidemiology
  • Pandemics*
  • SARS-CoV-2*
  • Transients and Migrants
  • Trust
  • Vaccination
  • Volunteers*

Substances

  • COVID-19 Vaccines