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However, at the moment, many people will be left without money, so they will depend on the support of their friends and family or mutualism to make it through the period of the pandemic. Here are some ideas about how to redistribute and attenuate their hardship, but also potentially lay the groundwork for networks of support and collaborative economy for the future:
# Money: solidarity funds
# Mutual aid ideas
## Money: solidarity funds
Within your community (political, neighbourhood, household, among a group of friends, or with your family) you can organise a common pot to redistribute money in order to prevent hunger and support each other's needs. This can be done in a very simple manner by creating a shared spreadsheet with three columns: list of participating people, weekly amount of contributed money, and a dividend for each person. Agree on the principles of contribution and dividend in advance. To transfer money, you can either have a messenger who can collect and redistribute physically or use a shared account or a tab in the same bank to send the money around. You can also open a [common wallet](https://vimeo.com/295537042) to collectivise income in a group.
# Resources: shared purchases and goods
## Resources: shared purchases and goods
You can also do the same for purchases. Create a spreadsheet with two tables: the first with a list of participating people and weekly amount of contributed money, and the second with a list of needs and prices. Keep the balance of accounts. Make the purchases together.
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When you can, buy the groceries from your local producers, ask them to organize a pick-up meeting every week with already mixed boxes of fruits, vegetables or whatever else. Try to keep the money circulating in your community for as long as possible.
# Labour: Common.coin
## Labour: Common.coin
However, given that currently there is little money that precarious workers can pool together, they can try to organise a mutual exchange of labour they can themselves provide to the community.
This they can do for instance by means of a distributed ledger (i.e. blockchain) system that was developed MACAO Cultural Centre in Milan, together with Dyne.org and a number of other communities, to collectivise economy and labour in the centre. To create a system of shared labour for your group, you can start a Common.coin wallet using [this tutorial](https://commonfare.net/it/stories/commoncoin-wallet-tutorial-31286f71-f28b-4f36-9739-4f7143f1bdb2) and create your own currency [here](https://commonfare.net/it/stories/group-currency-tutorial). For technical support reach out to [Dyne.org](https://swapi.dyne.org/).
# Labour: Timebank
## Labour: Timebank
[Timebanks](https://timebanks.org/what-is-timebanking/) are money systems where currency is accounted in time that is needed to provide services to other member of the community. For every service offered by one member, another member needs to agree to credit the time needed to complete that task. Timebanks can be organised by communities larg or small to help their members coordinate allocation of labour to collective needs. There are [many easy-to-use software implementations](https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Timebanking_Software_Platforms) to facilitate exchange on timebanking principles.
# Open a hotline for legal and union support
## Open a hotline for legal and union support
Organise a telephone hotline for lawyers and union representatives to provide workers (precarious or otherwise) with counsel related to their labour rights (e.g. how to avoid being forced to work where it entails risk or more generally where employers are loading off the cost of the crisis on workers). Find a good overview of labour-related issues in Italian [here](https://jacobinitalia.it/reddito-e-solidarieta-la-crisi-sanitaria-non-sia-pagata-da-chi-non-lavora/).