Viral Love: Connecting people who can help with people who need help.

The next few months will be difficult and frightening for many, for obvious reasons of health, isolation and financial uncertainty. However, there is also the possibility that they might become remarkable for an outpouring of unsolicited human kindness and love. There will be countless people in need of assistance, right on the doorstep of those most fortunate and most capable of offering support. And yet it is so easy to imagine them going unnoticed and uncared for. Viral Love aims to bridge that gap. Simply complete our quick offer form to publish a listing to your local community page, so that those that need it can easily find your offer and reach out. Our aim is to create a network across every community in the UK and Ireland of people willing to step in and lessen the burden. If this is to be successful, we will need a - ahem - viral exponential growth curve to rival that which the virus itself is currently in the foothills of. And that is where you come in. Please do fill out an offer to help in your community. But having done so we want you to shout about it: tell your friends about us, post to social media and help our trajectory catch up with the virus. We know that some of the most vulnerable will not use the internet. If you know anyone who needs support but won’t find it themselves then do it for them. Find a listing close to them and reach out on their behalf. Whilst going out of your way to help others, it is vitally important you follow the most recent official advice. Don’t do anything that risks your health or the health of others and take every precaution. Spread love, not the virus. The initial societal response to the virus has been troublingly marked not by compassion but by self-interest, not least the hoarding of supplies and ignoring of sensible advice. It is a worrying trend but a reversible one, and while both selfishness and kindness have the potential to compound and multiply, kindness has so much more. So don’t build a fortress out of toilet rolls, build one out of love. You’ll feel much better for it. Let’s all do our bit 🙂 P.S. very happy to adapt for the US or other English speaking countries if there is demand for it.