Table 1.
Representative self-organizations involved in relief servicesa.
Organizations | Actors | Key roles |
---|---|---|
NCP Life Support Network | A group of doctors | Provide medical consultation and psychological counseling to patients under home quarantine. |
Wakanda | Working staff of the coffee shop, citizen volunteers | Provide coffee for free to local medial workers |
Helping Doctors | A volunteer team in Wuhan engaged with front-line workers, including taxi drivers and deliverymen. | Provide transportation services to front-line medical workers |
Social Workers with You | Professional social workers | Provide nursing services to patients, suspected patients, and their family members when care was needed |
Anti-epidemic Volunteer Group | A local entrepreneur and ordinary citizens | Provide community volunteering in neighborhoods |
Wuhan Medical Hotel Support Alliance | An online voluntary campaign that engaged more than 300 local hotels | Provide accommodation services to front-line medical workers |
Volunteer Translation Group | An online group set up by a young man that engages friends | Provide translation services for medical goods |
Social Workers Group | A university teacher in Wuhan that connects more than 70 people | Provide psychological services to patients and their families |
Volunteer translation group | A citizen volunteer and his relatives and friends | Provide translation services for procurement purposes |
Residential community Volunteer Group | Homeowner's association representative and university professor | Provide daily care and guidance to residents via WeChat group communication |
Source: Originally adopted from Zhao & Wu (2020), modified by the author.