<h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.mutualaidhub.org/">Mutual Aid Hub</a></h3>
<h4> <strong>DelVal CoCo</strong> is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to promoting co-living and other co-operative ventures across the Delaware Valley, which includes Southeast Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, Northern Delaware and Northeastern Maryland.</h4>
<strong>Now, during these unprecedented times we all need to help each other...</strong> This is exactly what our purpose as an organization is all about. We believe that the current way of living in mainstream society has been making us unhealthy and destroying our environment. There is evidence that the current crisis may owe its origin, in part, to bad industrial farming practices the world over by moving humans closer to wild areas where viruses can make the jump from animal to human. (It is a bit more complex, but this is a contributing factor)

We can also see how the priorities of this system left us with our guard down and unprepared to respond quickly. We all must do our part. That is why we are strongly encouraging physical distancing during this crisis. That will be supporting an insufficient health care system and it's front-line workers, giving them the time to prepare to help those who contract the virus until treatments, and eventually a vaccine can be developed.

<strong>This means staying at home and only going out for necessities or to get some exercise</strong>... <strong>and keeping physical distance of at least 6 ft from each other when we are in public ...</strong> This will be a huge challenge and we will need to help each other get through it.

There are community efforts being organized to do just that. We are looking in on our neighbors, delivering food to those who are at greater risk of venturing out, and letting people know about other available resources for workers who have lost their jobs (<em>Like non-profit and government funds being made available for people who have suffered economically</em>)

<strong>In this unprecedented time we are building a network of these community efforts so that people who can help can find people who need help</strong>.. Below is a <em>community relief page</em> where people can look for help or offer help.

Click on the link and put in your need or what you can do. If you are looking for help, you can go to the link and see what people are offering. If you can give helps you can look to see who needs help. When you post, make sure to provide contact information so that others may find you. We recommend using an Instant Messaging App to link people to each other so that sensitive information can be shared while protecting your privacy.

<em><b>Below the Corona Virus Community Relief Page</b></em><b> there are links to community efforts throughout the city providing various kinds of support. </b>

Some are specific to certain geographic areas of the City of Philadelphia. (Once this network is up and running, it is our intention to build it out to surrounding counties and then throughout the Delaware Valley) Others are for particular populations. Still others are more broad based. Check them out and find the one that fits for you.. At the top of this page is a link to the <em>Mutual Aid Hub</em>... an on-line tool that will also bring you to these efforts listed below. You can also add your own local effort if you get one organized...

Check out our fb page as well..
<h4>Visit our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/delvalcoco/">Facebook Page</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/DelValColiving/">Group</a></h4>
We will be monitoring activity and posting resources throughout the crisis on both this website and our FB page too. Look out for info on both.

Co-living is grounded on the very notion that we are in this together and, working together, we can all be healthier and get through hardship easier if we help each other.
<h3><a href="https://delvalcoco.org/corona-virus-community-relief/"><strong>Corona Virus Community Relief Page</strong></a></h3>
<h4><span style="color: #339966;"><strong><em>"To go fast, go alone. </em></strong></span></h4>
<h4><span style="color: #339966;"><strong><em>To go far, go together."</em></strong></span></h4>
<h4><span style="color: #339966;"><strong><em>-African proverb</em></strong></span></h4>
<em>LIST OF GROUPS STARTS HERE</em>

<em>Brief description of each group</em>

We welcome individuals and existing co-living communities to join our network and those seeking co-living opportunities to become members.
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