How a German company (with roots in Amazon) is showing where you can find masks? Mask Radar, the one-stop shop supporting the long-term fight against Covid19

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English - April 16, 2020 11:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MB
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Rosa Markarian, Co-founder of Mask Radar, talks about how a community based shopping app created by her brother ten years ago inspired her nonprofit project Mask Radar. The platform brings together users in need of face masks with those who make and sell them.

Markarian's project is based on 'Collaboration'. In particular with other projects and movements with the same message. We talk about the future of Masks4All, and what we can learn from Angela Merkel (and others) in policy and support.

With it looking like the virus will be with us for quite some time, the German government has recently provided advice that it highly recommends that its people wear non-surgical masks outdoors and after lockdown. This puts Mask Radar in an ideal place to help with the long-term fight against Covid19.

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