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MAY 2020 POSITIVE NEWS PRIMARK DONATION TO SUPPORT HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS Primark has donated 18,000 products, including bed linen, pillows, towels and personal care products, to INEM – the National Institute of Medical Emergency. The products will be distributed to health professionals and patients, according to the needs assessed by INEM. This initiative is part of the international campaign that Primark has developed to support the fight against COVID-19. These donations are part of a global voluntary effort by hundreds of Primark employees to support those at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19. Primark offers donation boxes containing more than 400,000 products that will be delivered to professionals, volunteers and patients in cities and towns around the world where Primark has stores. A South Carolina couple has been using their Opera Singers Have Been musical talents to bring their community together Hosting for weekly street concerts—all while respecting Weekly Concerts in Their social distancing guidelines. Leah Edwards and her Driveway to Bring husband Dimitri Pitta are professional  opera Neighborhood Together singers  who have been setting up shop at the end of their driveway in Mount Pleasant to perform classical and contemporary opera pieces for their neighbors. Not only have their performances served as a source of entertainment for the neighborhood, they have also helped to keep the community close together during the novel coronavirus lockdowns. \"We’re practicing, they say they can hear us anyways, so we said why not take it to the driveway and make it a concert,” Edwards told WCBD. “It gets everyone out, checking on each other and get some breath of fresh air and make music.” Although the news outlet goes on to report that the couple usually performs at the Gaillard Center, they reportedly have no qualms playing for a smaller audience until the outbreaks subside. PAGE 01

SPORTS ON THE BEACHES WITH NO TIME LIMIT IN CASCAIS The Cascais City Council authorises the practice of sports on the beaches for an unlimited time, allowed since Monday, 4 May, following the Government's lack of definition plan regarding the covid-19 pandemic, said an autonomous source. \"The municipality did not apply a time limit for the practice of sports associated with the coast, we rely on the common sense of the practitioners\", said a local source, questioned by the agency Lusa. The municipality, which has about 30 kilometres of coastline, will, according to the same source, communicate “the rules for the use of beaches, in physical and digital media, in order to ensure that all users are aware” and work in first collaboration with the maritime authority. In the municipality of Mafra, which, like Cascais, is part of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, time limits were imposed to avoid the risk of contagion and the crowding of surfers on the beaches. On Monday, the mayor of Mafra, Hélder Sousa Silva, explained to the agency Lusa, that the measure \"intends to avoid disturbances\", clarifying that fishermen have 120 minutes a day, surfers 90 minutes and walkers 60- minutes. The rules defined in the Government's deconfination plan allow access to the beach for surfing and related sports, for recreational fishing and for the practice of non-collective sports such as running or walking. Porto The ‘STAYAWAY’ mobile application detects Institute physical proximity between ‘smartphones’ and creates informs users that they have been, in the last 14 app to days, in the same space as someone infected track with the new coronavirus.“Each mobile phone contagion broadcasts anonymous identifiers in its proximity networks and stores the identifiers disseminated by the mobile phones with which it crosses”. “With this public information, the application of each person can easily assess autonomously if in the previous days they was close to the infected person”, says the institute of Porto. Even without social distancing rules, the isolation that recovering addicts experience when they choose to pursue a new, sober lifestyle is profound—so in order to surround its members with support during these difficult times, The Phoenix is taking their classes online, continuing to meet in groups virtually. Not only have the online meetings served as a source of comfort for The Phoenix’s members, they have also started welcoming sober social media users from around the world as well. THIS GYM HELPING ITS MEMBERS STAY SOBER IN QUARANTINE IS NOW HELPING ADDICTS AROUND THE WORLD AS WELL PAGE 02

DO YOU WANT TO Gratitude Jar LANLGEUAARGNEA? NINESWTALL The gratitude jar is a stunningly simple exercise THIS APP NOW! that can have profound effects on your well-being and outlook. DUOLINGO Step 1: Find a jar or box. Step 2: Decorate the jar however you wish. Do whatever else you can think of to make it a pleasing sight. Step 3:  This is the most important step, which will be repeated every day. Think of three things throughout your day that you are grateful for. It can be something as benign as a coffee at your favorite place, or as grand as the love of your significant other or dear  friend. Do this every day, write down what you are grateful for on little slips of paper and fill the jar. Over time, you will find that you have a jar full of a myriad of reasons to be thankful for what you have and enjoy the life you are living. It also will cultivate a practice of expressing thanks. If you are ever feeling especially down and need a quick pick-me- up, take a few notes out of the jar to remind yourself of who, and what, is good in your life. Easy Homemade Social Mask 1 T-shirt 1 Scissors Note: The mask will be more effective if it has two layers of fabric; you can overlay two of these masks made from t-shirts. PAGE 03