{"id":2649,"date":"2020-04-17T00:40:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T07:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twohandsbrands.com\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2021-12-02T22:40:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:40:27","slug":"helping-fight-senior-isolation-in-the-global-covid-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twohandsbrands.com\/blog\/helping-fight-senior-isolation-in-the-global-covid-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Senior Isolation in the Global COVID Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
We had the honor of joining the World Health Organization\u2019s Global Covid Hackathon<\/a>, #BuildforCOVID19, in partnership with Microsoft, Facebook, Slack, Pinterest, and others, to build solutions for “challenges related to the coronavirus pandemic.”<\/p> See the Visual Identity and Brand Strategy we built for MealsTogether<\/a>, a project linking lonely seniors with youth for one-on-one, intergenerational dinner parties over video calls.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t Social Distancing has made gathering challenging for many, however loneliness is a big problem that existed before the pandemic. Our seniors are being shut out of society, left to live out the end of their lives in isolation. We know loneliness is as lethal as smoking 15 cigarettes a day<\/a>.<\/p> Meal time in particular is hard for folks. It\u2019s our human instinct to bond with people over shared food, to laugh and learn, to connect, and to see and be seen. We hope this project is one way to ease some suffering, and make more nurturing, human connection possible.<\/p>