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Teachers and PAS join the national #FrenaLaCurva movement and offer to help those who need it most The coronavirus crisis has disrupted the daily lives of students, workers and entrepreneurs.
The educational centers have closed and many companies and institutions, such as the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) have asked their employees to work from home, following the government's recommendations not to leave the houses unless it is strictly necessary.
This situation has removed the most human side of the UPCT staff.
Many have joined the national #FrenaLaCurva movement to help those who need it most these days.
This is the case of María Socorro García Cascales (also known as Chocky), a professor of Industrial Engineering who this year is making a stay at the University of Maine, in the United States, and who has been caught in the situation in Spain, while her husband and their three children remain in the United States.
"I feel bad for not being able to return to my family, but participating in Frena la Curva (frenalacurva.net) is my way of coping with the situation and being able to push forward," he says.
García found out about this initiative on Twitter, launched by the Government of Aragon, but that in a matter of days has spread to all of Spain and has even reached Mexico and Colombia in an attempt to advance in those countries what could happen if they don't take the appropriate containment measures against the virus.
She contributes her grain of sand by sharing the @frenalacurva network and disseminating all the solidarity initiatives that are being organized by the UPCT on social networks, both to help the health workers with media (3D material printing, transfer of university facilities if necessary ...) to make confinement more bearable (organization of virtual tournaments by UPCT Esports for video game lovers).
In addition, it is offered to go out to make the purchase or an errand to the pharmacy to people who are disabled or who are a risk group (elderly or people with previous pathologies).
"The other day I brought up the purchase of a neighbor to her house because the elevator was broken and she lived on a fourth floor and could not," he says.
Chocky is one of those who think that solidarity should not disappear with the Coronavirus, but that "it should continue over time, many of us are privileged and we must look more at the rest."
Among the UPCT staff who have joined the initiative, the work of the director of the UPCT Equality Unit, María José Lucas, also stands out.
In his case, he has offered to help the elderly and people with reduced mobility in Los Alcázares, the town where he lives.
"I have put the message on my social networks because there are always those who know someone who may need help and I can provide it," he says, recalling that the other day he went to buy the bread and took the opportunity to ask a neighbor of his building that I might need your help if I needed something.
According to Lucas, «this is like a chain, we are in a very complicated situation and it makes us value having more communication with the neighbors.
There is a solidarity that until now has been lost and is something that is worth maintaining, "he added.
Another of the solidarity women of the UPCT is Soledad Martínez María Dolores, professor in the Department of Quantitative Methods, Legal Sciences and Modern Languages.
The teacher, who has many followers on social networks, is continuously replicating initiatives related to volunteering so that more and more people help.
Apart from #FrenaLaCurva, Sole Martínez is spreading initiatives for children to develop their educational activity and have places where they can find math, physics and cultural activities: history channels, ESO science topics, such as the teacher's UPCT Juan Medina, lasmatematicas.es among others, as well as the websites of museums and libraries that make their resources freely available.
Source: UPCT
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