But the Regina COVID-19 Volunteer Community Response Team has stepped up to help. The group, founded and run by a group of four local women, has been supporting elders with food, entertainment and conversation. Since then, the volunteer team has been reaching out to elders, providing warm meals and making regular phone calls to check in. Urban gardeningEarly on, Sasakamoose said, the volunteer team started getting requests for traditional food and traditional medicine. JoLee Sasakamoose, a member of the Regina COVID community response volunteer team and research director at the Indigenous Wellness Research Community Network & Wellness Wheel Medical Clinic.

Source: CBC News August 12, 2020 00:11 UTC