During Covid-19, we’ve gone remote.

We need human connection now more than ever. So in these challenging times, we’ve pivoted to remote story collecting projects designed to ease social isolation and amplify critical voices in our community.

We’re training people of all ages to participate in these projects, so please reach out if you’d like to join in.

The Essential People Project is a series of neighbor-to-neighbor Zoom interviews with people considered too essential to the functioning of our city to stay home during the pandemic. These people have always been essential, of course; now they’re risking their health, and the health of their families, to support their neighbors. This is our shout-out to them. You’ll find their stories in our online library.

How We Got Through is a project that connects elders with younger Bostonians for recorded phone conversations about life- and how the elders got through tough times. The project is designed to ease isolation for all involved, and to amplify the voices of elders, who have always been our guides in life. The first of the interviews will soon be published in our library.

Thanks to our early partners: the Greater Boston YMCA’s Young Achievers program; New Mission High School (History teacher Brinda Tahiliani, who gave her awesome students class credit for interviewing); Turn It Around (Charlestown): and Cheryl Harding, senior liaison to Boston City Councilor Andrea Campbell, who connected us to elders in her district.

We’re actively looking for sponsors for these projects, so please do get in touch if you’d like to underwrite this opportunity for your neighbors.

And if you’d like to nominate an essential worker or an elderly resident to be interviewed, or if you’d like to be trained up as an interviewer yourself, please reach out!

Meantime, we’re sending love to you and yours.

Cara Solomon
Founder/Executive Director
Everyday Boston