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 This is how the Public Lotteries sell their Social Action throughout Europe

 
The Association of European State Lotteries and Toto, better known as ''European Lotteries'' (EL), has published a summary of the actions of support to local communities by its members in the fight against COVID-19.
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Below, we share the highlights of the social actions of EL's members:

Spain
ONCE

  • Set up a programme called "You're not alone" to support people with chronic diseases during the Covid-19 crisis. The programme consisted of delivering food and medical equipment to people who were unable to reach hospitals and medical centres autonomously.
  • Initiative to stimulate blind & visually impaired students & make them aware of the importance of social distancing & the use of masks. They do so by asking their pupils to record themselves on their mobiles phones, dressed up as superheroes members of the ONCE patrol fighting the coronavirus.
  • Supports "La Caixa" Foundation, which is raising funds to support food banks in Spain during the crisis. The project has already raised more than 1 million EUR.
  • Supports school teachers who help visually impaired students (age 8 to 12) in Salamanca. These activities focus on self-esteem and positive group attitude during the confinement period.
  • The volunteering staff of ONCE Foundation has increased by 120% since the start of Spain's lockdown. So far, 781 volunteers have been involved in supporting people with disabilities navigate everyday life during confinement.
  • ONCE has reached virtually all of their blind & deaf-blind elders to ensure their needs
  • The ONCE Foundation has generated volunteer initiatives that are supporting people with reduced mobility living in isolated locations
  • The ONCE Social Group are using their 3D printers to produce masks and respirators for hospitals; and their schools and hotels are offered and converted into medicalised residences to collaborate in the decongestion of hospitals for the care of the COVID-19 patients. 
  • Together with experts, ONCE will host webinars that focus on the 90 million people living with disabilities to provide them with the tools to face the situation under equal conditions. Employment, social protection, access to health services, protection measures against the coronavirus, strategies for confinement and community support networks are some of the issues that will be discussed.
SELAE
  • Continues to help people affected by Covid-19. Through its support for the Spanish Red Cross, 1,000 digital tablets have been provided to vulnerable children, guaranteeing their access to education during these troubled times.


Austria
Austrian Lotteries
  • Supports the efforts of the federal government to stop the coronavirus by launching the initiative wirtragenmaske.at ("we wear masks"). Through this, the Austrian Lotteries and Casinos Austria, wants to shine a light on the importance of wearing masks.

Belgium
Loterie National Belgium
  • Financially supports many projects to fight COVID-19
  • Implementation of emergency measures to protect people who have no housing during the crisis. 
  • Campaign on social media & national television 
Czech Republic
SAZKA A.S.
  • Employees have been volunteering, delivering food and many other basic products to people with special needs during the Covid-19 crisis.
  • A financial donation to "Podane Ruce" ("Given Hands") foundation; the company delivers cars and employs drivers to distribute food and health supplies to elderly people and people in need.

France
Francaise des Jeux
  • Company agreement allowing employees to donate time off to reduce costs and support hospitals. 
  • Donation of €1m to the alliance "Tous unis contre le virus". The money will go towards caregivers, research and support for the most disadvantaged.
  • A €200,000 donation.to maintain the assistance it provides to the most vulnerable, in particular by delivering daily essential supplies to the elderly in their homes.
FYROM
National Lottery of Macedonia
  • The Red Cross, with financial support from the Lottery of Macedonia, will deliver humanitarian aid to the vulnerable and elderly. 

Germany
Staatliche Lotterieverwaltung (Lotto Bayern)
  • Aid package of €3.5m for its operators that ran into difficulties due to the crisis. This solidarity fund is intended to help operators to better withstand difficult economic conditions.

Land Brandenburg Lotto
  • Supports "Hilfe für Familien in Not" ("Help for families in need") with a donation of €5,000. The Foundation specialises in financial support to families in need and to expectant mothers. 

Lotto-Toto GMBH Sachsen-Anhalt
  • A total of 102,250 EUR of the 1,000,000 EUR available in the Lotto Aid Fund have been allocated.

Westdeutsche Lotterie
  • Devolves 40% of all wins to sports clubs and gyms in North Rhine-Westphalia which are organising online exercice classes in COVID-19 times.
  • Support to the North Rhine-Westphalia Red Cross and has echoed its campaign to promote the use of protective masks.
  • Westlotto aims to support the artists and at the same time contribute to the preservation of the vibrant art and cultural landscape in NRW so that they can enjoy it to the full after the crisis.

Greece
OPAP S.A.
  • Actively supporting the public health system through:
    • • Renovation of Children’s Hospital
    • • Provision of essential health care materials
    • • Disposal of health mobile units to the public health system
    • • "Doctor AnyTime"" platform, a partner of OPAP in the disposal of the public.
    • • Create and connect social media content with the nationwide “Stay Home” effort
Hungary
Szerencsejáték Zrt.
  • 50 million in support to 500 families in need received an immediate crisis package as part of the donation, which included food and hygiene products.
  • Szerencsejáték Zrt. provided HUF 50 million each to three Hungarian hospitals responsible for the care of coronavirus patients. 
  • Szerencsejáték Zrt. has developed a network protection and development program containing more than HUF 5 billion in extra bonus commission to help its sales network partners who were hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

Ireland
Premier Lotteries Ireland
  • €16m of Irish National Lottery unclaimed prize money will go to good causes to be used to support the health sector in efforts against COVID-19.

Italy
Lottomatica
  • Project "Joyprint" to involve children and teenagers in summer camps in Rome, Naples, Milan, Turin, Bergamo and Rieti. Participants, who will be more than 400, mostly come from families with troubled backgrounds - a group that was particularly hit by the Covid-19 crisis.

SISAL S.P.A.
  • Activated a fundraising campaign in favour of the "Civil Protection" organisation through its sales network, not tied to any form of gambling. Voluntary donations were also made to "Civil Protection", charitable organisations and hospitals in the Lombardy region.
Poland
Totalizator Sportowy
  • Involved in a countrywide campaign #MilionySposobówNaNud? (Eng. Millions of Ways to Fight Boredom). The website provides tutorials, recipes and other inspiration for ways to spend time indoors.
  • Donation of 90 cars to hospitals in urgent need of transportation. 
  • Donation of z?4m (€880,000) via the LOTTO Halina Konopacka Foundation to aid the health sector combating COVID-19. 
  • Transfer 10% of online sales of all bets & lottery tickets made on lotto.pl to the cause. As of 6 May, the support amounted to z?3.1m (€680,000) and is still growing.

Portugal
Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa
  • Distributes food baskets to the most disadvantaged. Around 1,200 families benefit from this support programme every month. 
  • Organised the Santa Casa Challenge, to find innovative digital solutions to respond to the specific needs of elderly people in social isolation in institutions or at home in times of Covid-19. 
Slovakia
TIPOS
  • Approved financial donations for the purchase of medical devises: nebulizers.Thanks to Tipos, hospitals will receive useful nebulizers worth more than € 50,000.
Switzerland
Société de la Loterie de la Suisse Romande
  • Supports the Fondation Mère Sofia who is helping those in need during the COVID-19 epidemic by serving 700 meals every day.
  • Due to financial difficulties caused by the cancellation or postponement of events, the Neuchâtel Commission for the Distribution of Profits of the Loterie Romande assured the organisers of its support. It has decided to pay the beneficiaries the full amount granted, even in the event of cancellation, reductions or postponements. 
  • Supports the Fondation Perceval which focuses its efforts on sheltering, schooling an training children and adults with disabilities. 

United Kingdom
Camelot UK Lotteries
  • Corporate donations totalling £0.2 million to various appeals set up to aid those in need during this time.
  • £600 millions for initiatives focused on combatting loneliness & isolation, providing care for the elderly, offering support for physical & mental health in the community as well as for the arts, community and charity, heritage, education, environment projects and sporting sectors.
  • TNL funded Innovations in Dementia has been working with people living with dementia to produce a guide designed for volunteers who are supporting people with dementia through COVID19.
  • TNL Heritage Fund has set up a £50 million emergency fund for British heritage sites after almost 50% said they would not survive beyond six months if the virus shutdown continues. Arts Council England has announced a £160m emergency support package to help the cultural sector.
  •  £195m of funding available to help the sport sector through the ongoing crisis.
  • The National Lottery is strongly supporting charities and organisations to fight social deprivation caused by the coronavirus crisis. Total funding has already reached £600 million
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