COVID 19: Sports men and women engage in community services
In the current global sanitary crisis situation and the mandatory home confinement advised by authorities and health specialists world-wide in order to contain the risks and avoid the rapid spread of COVID 19, humanity has been challenged. Indeed, all of us have been encouraged – and literally obliged, to revisit the basic values underlying our bondages as “social beings”. In the family, in communities, in society at large – after satisfying our basic needs and looking forward, all have been compelled to finding an answer to this question: what more could I do to keep moving?
That’s right – keep moving and staying alive is essential for “us” social beings. This is a condition that we even share with other creatures on planet earth – but that’s not the subject of this post.
Let us rather focus on this: What does involuntary home lockdown mean for men and women engaged in competitive sports? Most of them have been used to moving, running, training, sweating, playing and performing their arts on a daily basis. Given the current “almost global” confinement – with all sports, in all categories canceled or postponed due to the ongoing health crisis, what are “stars” and “heroes” of sports doing? How do they spend their days, and where? What do they undertake to continue making us dream? Or just simply – serving their families, communities, and societies?
While some of them have converted their seating rooms into trainings halls, some others have decided to go out there, and give a helping hand to authorities and organized communities. Their new activities range from the distribution of protection masks, gloves, and hydro-alcoholic gel; dissemination of information and advice on basic sanitary protocols; to swift shopping and delivery of goods to elderly homes, etc…
Indeed our stars remain men and women next door!
Truly, new forms of solidarity have emerged providing a clear evidence of our abilities to innovate and learn from such emergencies. This is commendable! Let us hope that we shall keep the trend.
One of the best examples to illustrate in this post comes from Austria, and our hero is David Kanyinda (27), player of Salzburg Ducks. In the following interview with a leading radio station in Salzburg, Austria, he reports on his recent activities with his colleagues assisting groups and organized structures in increasing public awareness, distribution of masks strengthening protection barriers against COVID 19.
Congratulations to you, David, your colleagues and club’s management. Well done!
We may meet you again in our posts in the future.
