Thank you to local community partner, Serve Your City for sharing this post:
Help us bridge the digital divide for DC students!
Weeks into distance learning, thousands of DC students still don't have access to Internet or computers at home. Here's how you can help.
- Sign or share this letter to Mayor Muriel Bowser calling for a citywide solution to the digital divide
- Donate used laptops or devices here
- Donate money to Serve Your City to help purchase wifi hotspots and laptops as part of the DC Mutual Aid Network
“It’s unethical, it’s immoral. The greatest issue is the outcomes. What are the consequences for the students who don’t have access?”
- SYC founder Maurice Cook to the Washington Post about DC students without access to internet and computers
- SYC founder Maurice Cook to the Washington Post about DC students without access to internet and computers
About the Ward 6 Mutual Aid effort:
Serve Your City is the Ward 6 hub for the DC Mutual Aid Network, a city-wide, grassroots, community-led effort to help all residents through the COVID-19 epidemic. Now, more than ever, we need to share resources so that we can save lives in the District. We are partnering with other Ward 6 organizations, including Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Momma’s Safe Haven, the TraRon Center, Brotha’s Huddle and Training Grounds.
We already know that Black people in DC and other big cities are contracting and dying of coronavirus at disproportionately higher rates. The most recent data show that Black Washingtonians are almost 60% of the city's 22 deaths from COVID-19.
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
- LIKE DC Mutual Aid Network on Facebook to plug into what is happening in your Ward and how you can help
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DONATE money for food and supplies (CLICK HERE)
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DONATE shelf-stable food and cleaning supplies (CLICK HERE FOR LIST)
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DONATE laptops, tablets and internet service for students (CLICK HERE)
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VOLUNTEER to deliver goods to Ward 6 residents (email ward6mutualaid@gmail.com)
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SHARE this email with your friends and family so they can help, too!
- Form a Mutual Aid Pod for your apartment building or block. Check out the pod mapping toolkit and Sign up to be a Pod Point Person. We are encouraging DC residents to form ‘Neighbor Pods’ - small groups of 10-30 neighbors who agree to help each other through this crisis. This can be picking up groceries, passing out face masks, connecting neighbors with city services and other critical actions to save lives during this crisis.
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