e-NABLE in the Time of COVID

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Re-NABLE | NY, USA

Have your community activities changed during the last several months?

Please summarize your efforts

The @Rochester Enable Lab (Re-NABLE))) is located at the Vertus High School. As the Covid era began, @Melvin Cruz embarked to Costa Rica, the school closed, and @Skip Meetze, @Jon Schull, @Ben Rubin, @Kyle Reeser, @Andrea Santiago Boyd and our student interns all went home. Working from home, Skip, Jon, Kyle and Ben have joined forces with @James Whitlock and several other e-NABLE volunteers in Buffalo. @Jeremy Simon in Illinois joined as well to contribute to work on the Buffalo/e-NABLE Mask. Fifty meetings in, the collaboration has produced a first design, and a website (BEmask.org). The work continues.

What are the current needs of your community?

What are the current needs for your chapter and activities?

Rochester Enable Limited continues to administer the EnableFund, and supports its own operations with a small percentage of donations thereto:

opencollective.com/enablefund

Have you received promotional filament to support your efforts?

How have you used these materials?

No promotional flament was used.

Have you partnered with any other chapters, groups, or organizations?

What advice can you offer for others working to contribute to their community needs?

“Large scale problems do not require large-scale solutions –
they require small-scale solutions within a large-scale framework”
--David Fleming, Surviving the Future.

Jon Schull wrote an essay about stop-gap solutions in relation to the Coronavirus effort. Please feel free to read and add comments!

Submitted by @Jon Schull

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