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17:56 07/05/2021
Staff in the EU institutions have launched a fundraising drive for Europe Day 2021 on 9 May, urging colleagues to join them in supporting people across the continent hardest hit by the pandemic.
Set up in 2020, the EU Staff COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund has resulted in more than 1,200 civil servants personally donating over €600,000 in the past year, benefitting charities hardest hit by the coronavirus. These include Romanian project Bunl Samaritean (pictured, below).
In the latest fund boost, organisers aim to double the number of donors by asking contributors to sign up a colleague to the cause. “We wanted to show that the EU staff as individuals care about Europeans in need,” said European Commission policy officer Bruno Mola, one of the fund’s founders.