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A team of volunteers assisting the mutual aid community in the Northern Colorado Areas: Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Windsor, Timnath, Wellington, and more!
Pandemic of Love Story
Featured on CNN Heroes, Pandemic of Love is a global, grassroots, volunteer-led formalized mutual aid community. "Mutual aid" is a voluntary reciprocal exchange of resources and services based on the principle that members of a community should feel responsible to care for one another and aspire to develop a community safety net where no individual goes hungry, no individual is without shelter and no individual feels alone. The organization was started around a kitchen table by one person, Shelly Tygielski, a Florida meditation teacher, on March 14th, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to force closures in communities across the world. While Pandemic of Love was initially formed to take care of the financial needs that people in need faced due pandemic-related to income loss, the organization has been expanding through local micro-community chapters to meet the different needs that are arising in this unprecedented time that we are living through. Our team of volunteers are partnering with brands and organizations, assisting communities-in-need, and joining forces with global movements with the intention of creating sustainable, formalized mutual aid communities all across the world, long after the pandemic of over.
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POL NOCO - Lead Volunteer
Kati Thompson was first inspired by Shelly Tygielski when listening to her interview on Chelsey Handler's podcast and then read her book Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World. After reading Shelly's book and hearing about the Pandemic of Love movement, Kati felt called to bring the same mutual aid community to the Northern Colorado area.
Kati lives in Severance, Colorado with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs. She is a small business owner, yoga instructor and yoga lifestyle coach. She believes that every single human being on this planet has something they can offer and something they need, regardless of their socioeconomic status, or background. When we can transact and connect with each other directly, a human bond of the heart forms, leading us to remember our common humanity. We have all suffered in some way in this life. We are here to help each other.
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POL NOCO - Lead Volunteer
Julie Santilli lives in Windsor, Colorado with her husband, son and daughter. She is a former middle school teacher, current yoga and mindfulness instructor, and private tutor. She has been leading from the heart all of her life and looks forward to assisting Mutual Aid connections for those in the Northern Colorado area.
To learn more about the Global Movement check out our parent website here: