Facebook activated a feature on March 31 which allows its users affected by coronavirus pandemic to call for help in their community.
The social media giant added the COVID-19 in the Community Help feature where people can interact with their neighbors, help them pick up their goods, supplies during disasters.
The said feature lets Facebook users make a request or offer help.
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“We’ve been seeing since the beginning people asking for help,” Facebook app head Fidji Simo told AFP.
The feature will be activated to several countries and information being thrown in the feature will be connected through the coronavirus information hub, according to Simo.
“We’ve been working for a couple of weeks at enabling the feature,” he added.
Users will be able to see a post with a 50-mile radius in the US and 100 kilometers in other countries, but people can adjust the settings of the area in which they are available to provide aid.
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“You can adjust it down if you can only help in your neighborhood,” Simo said.
Simo added that the leading social network company will continue to find ways to help people and donate to local fundraising campaigns as well as giving relevant information about the coronavirus pandemic through its COVID-19 Information Center launched two weeks ago.
