Graduates of KAICIID’s Social Media as a Space for Dialogue Programme have launched a series of online campaigns in response to a rise in hate speech during COVID-19, working to combat discrimination, promote good health practices and provide much-needed humanitarian aid.
As government and health officials have worked rapidly to disseminate information on the pandemic to communities around the world, young people are stepping up, encouraging their digital followers to comply with lockdown rules and social distancing measures and launching crowdsourced funding campaigns to meet humanitarian needs.