Solidarity Grants

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Institute offered Fellows the chance to apply for short-term, rapid response Solidarity Grants that were designed to scaffold or scale up Fellows’ work to minimize the impact of the virus on endangered and vulnerable communities. As from April 2020, 74 Atlantic Fellows received 57 Solidarity Grants.

CROSS-PROGRAM PROJECTS 1.

Exploring loneliness, social isolation, and the care burden in care partners and families of people with dementia in Arabic- French- and Bengali-speaking countries — Mohamed Salama, Yaohua Chen, and Sanjib Saha, Atlantic Fellows for Equity in

Brain Health; and Anjali Sarker, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity

Empowering disenfranchised communities with storytelling for advocacy — Rose

Mary Nakame and Elena Rivera, Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity US + Global; and Juanita Wheeler, Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity

Disability Justice Narratives — Fredrick Ouko, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, and Mildred Omino, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity

US + Global

ATLANTIC FELLOWS FOR EQUITY IN BRAIN HEALTH 4.

Understanding inequalities in the consequences of “social distancing” policies for health and wellbeing in Latin America — Emily Adrion and Fernando

Aguzzoli-Peres

Stay safe: implementation of remote cognitive assessment in Brazil — Maira Okada de Oliveira and Barbara Costa Beber

Brincar de Viver (Playful Living) — Lenisa Brandão and Barbara Costa Beber

Quantifying the financial impacts of COVID-19 on families with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias via Tele-STELLA — Walter Dawson

Developing an online module for training of family caregivers of people with dementia, supported by Alzheimer’s Society Ireland — Wambui Karanja

Personal protective equipment for caregivers of people living with dementia in

Bangladesh — Sanjib Saha 10. Evaluating the effectiveness of informational supports for people with traumatic brain injury — Lingani Mbakile-Mahlanza 11. I’m Still Virtually Here: creative online sessions for people with dementia and their caregivers — Karin Diamond 12. Boosting inclusivity in our post COVID world: a second video of “My Brain

Robbie” — Eleonore Bayen 13. Virtual Brain Health Center — Krystal L. Culler 14. Assessing the impact of the pandemic on unmet needs in community-dwelling older adults: a retrospective chart review of outreach efforts in San Francisco — Joni Gillisen 15. “What’s going on?”: videos in Brazil — Fernando Aguzzoli-Peres

17.

— Phaedra Bell and Rowena Richie

Protecting the health of at-risk farm workers — Dvera Saxton 18. A photojournalist’s documentation of the effects of COVID-19 in Peru — Alex Kornhuber and Maritza Pintado-Caipa 19. Digital cognitive training to promote brain health during the pandemic — Rogerio Panizzutti and Christine Fitzgerald 20. Fighting the loneliness of elderly patients in Belgium — Sandra Higuet

ATLANTIC FELLOWS FOR RACIAL EQUITY

21. Rural community resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown — Bongiwe Lusizi 22. Southern Soul Wellness: virtual holistic mental health (including spiritual wellbeing) consultation services — Holiday Simmons 23. Alternative food and support provisioning system: a COVID-19 response —

Dorah Marema 24. The New Normal Game — Sarah Summers and Kelly-Eve Koopman 25. Justice Serves — Jitu Brown 26. Black Funders Network of the Bay Area — Cedric Brown

27.

Moatane honey-making project, Goedgevonden Village, South Africa — Constance Mogale

ATLANTIC FELLOWS FOR HEALTH EQUITY IN SOUTH AFRICA

28. A parent champion network addressing barriers to health care in the light of the COVID-19 epidemic — Erna van der Westhuizen 29. Tembisa Community Action Network — Tracey Malawana

ATLANTIC FELLOWS FOR HEALTH EQUITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

30. Bridging the gap: meeting the needs of PPE for health facilities, and building a website for long-term impact — Rennta Chrisdiana and Blandina Rosalina Bait 31. Self-empowerment through Forum Theater — Letchimi Devi 32. SAKU Jobsbot: personalized chatbot that provides employment access to untapped talent from marginalized communities during the COVID-19 crisis in Thailand — May Sripatanaskul 33. Solidarity for the vulnerable: it matters for mother and child health — Elisabeth Listyani and Blandina Rosalina Bait 34. #BIDASolusyon: cash-for-face mask/shield project — Beverly Lorraine Ho 35. Del Carmen Polyclinic Telemed Center — Alfredo M. Coro II 36. Building Thailand-focused strategic information for the continuity of HIV and sexual health service delivery in the country — Midnight Poonkasetwattana

37.

Strengthening food security and promoting nutrition resiliency through hydroponics in the time of COVID-19 — Gideon Cauton 38. Redesigning spaces and services for post COVID human-centered health care — Kotchakorn Voraakhom and Santi Lapbenjakul 39. Building food security and community health resilience for the Baan Bang Kloy

Indigenous Karen community impacted by the COVID-19 crisis in Thailand — Somporn Pengkam and Ratawit Ouaprachanon

40. The Food Bridge Project — Abdel Jamal Disangcopan 41. Raising awareness of internally displaced communities in Afghanistan to fight

COVID-19 and its effects — Sharon Low and Dauod Khuram 42. Bridging the sexual reproductive health service gap — Ana P. Santos 43. Preventive action for Nageko Regency — Blandina Rosalina Bait and Sharon Low 44. Development of multi-modal instructional materials to support the education of vulnerable Filipino students amidst the pandemic — Abelardo Apollo David, Jr., and Abdel Jamal Disangcopan 45. Inner Journey Forum to support mental wellbeing — Kritaya Sreesunpagit 46. Digital marketing transformation strategy and support for SMEs & community-

47.

based enterprise affected by COVID-19 in Indonesia — Goris Mustaqim Learning packets for children in remote areas of Flores Island and Sumba Island — Nila Tanzil

ATLANTIC FELLOWS FOR HEALTH EQUITY US + GLOBAL

48. Assisting communities with education to reduce coronavirus transmission — Abraham L. B. Freeman 49. Strengthening of the contact tracing strategy in the municipality of Quilmes — Jonatan Konfino 50. Using infotainment to communicate prevention of COVID-19 — Monalisa Padhee and Ifeanyi Nsofor 51. COVID Health Animation Project — Megan Srinivas, Syed Mustafa Hasnain Nadir and Gilberto Lopez 52. The COVID Health Animation Project (CHAP): children’s mental health — Bertrand Moses, Elena Rivera, Syed Mustafa Hasnain Nadir, Megan Srinivas,

Gilberto Lopez and Nkem Osian 53. Teledental health kiosks and comic books in rural Nigeria — Adekemi Adeniyan 54. Every child counts, even in COVID times — Shubha Nagesh and Syed Mustafa

Hasnain Nadir

ATLANTIC FELLOWS FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUITY

55. Intersectional Tapes: a new podcast / YouTube channel — Asha Kowtal 56. Equal education through collective community home-schooling

57.

— Maureen Sigauke Alleviating the hunger of elderly widows and orphans in rural Western Kenya — Roseline Orwa

RIGHT Top: Abraham L . B . Freeman and his organization, Environmental Rescue Initiative, provide hygiene kits and hand-washing facilities to rural communities in Monrovia, Liberia

Bottom: Jonatan Konfino, Atlantic Fellow for Health Equity US + Global (pictured second right), is using the Solidarity Grant to strengthen contact tracing in Quilmes, Argentina

LEFT Left: Video animations created by Monalisa Padhee and Ifeanyi Nsofor explain COVID-19 to rural communities in India and Nigeria

Right: Maureen Sigauke has bought textbooks and laptops for more than 100 children in Zimbabwe so they can continue their schooling