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</ul></div>To supplement the measures officially deployed by the public administrations, numerous solidarity initiatives were launched in various domains, mobilising a wide range of disparate agents. The initiatives covered in this chapter are a small sample of the extensive social effort to lessen the effects of the first wave of the pandemic on the most vulnerable layers of society during spring 2020. Broadly speaking, these solidarity initiatives may be divided into two categories: those launched by charitable organisations, and those spontaneous initiatives launched by specific individuals and groups. The following paragraphs focus on the work carried out by three non-governmental institutions with a well-known tradition in welfare, i.e. the Spanish Red Cross, Cáritas and the Spanish Federation of Food Banks.

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</ul></div>The Spanish Red Cross stepped up the efforts to protect vulnerable people with an action plan called “The Red Cross RESPONDS”. This organisation continued to help those who were already being assisted and, in addition, acted as an auxiliary support agent for the public administrations. An analysis of beneficiaries by age shows that help was most commonly provided to people from 30 to 49 years of age and to those over 70, whilst the breakdown by sex reveals that 64% of those assisted were women. As the graph on the People assisted by the Spanish Red Cross during the first wave of the pandemic depicts, this organisation carried out over 820,000 ‘health’-focused awareness-raising activities to promote measures to prevent and contain the effects of the pandemic. In addition, 110 temporary shelters for over 5,300 homeless people and 30 hospital infrastructures were set up as part of the ‘relief’ actions. Nearly 850,000 food deliveries were made and 600,000 people were assisted under the heading of ‘social inclusion’ actions. Over 50,000 educational support activities were carried out under the heading of ‘education’ actions. Some 50,000 people in fuel poverty were assisted under the heading of ‘environment’ actions. And 62,000 people were assisted under ‘employment’ actions. This organisation was also involved in conveying many patients to hospitals. The Spanish Red Cross mobilised 50,000 volunteers to deploy these actions, of which 58% were women and 47% were between 20 and 39 years of age. In short, the Spanish Red Cross assisted over 3.5 million people and issued over 9 million responses through the website.

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Social networks serve as a novel source for tracking social behaviour. They have also become a very useful tool for getting quickly in contact during crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The information published on social networks has a huge potential in various fields, and more specifically for public health studies. Members of the Geographic Information Technologies and Territorial Analysis research group at the University of Alcalá downloaded data from Twitter and processed them to draw the graphs included in this topic.

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The action of the public administrations and third-sector institutions played an essential role in lessening the impact of the pandemic on health and social issues, as detailed in the previous paragraphs. Furthermore, these initiatives were complemented by spontaneous citizen solidarity initiatives.

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