VSO International is organising a webinar to bring together effective practices and further ideas of actions that can be undertaken to engage learners who have found it difficult to continue their education during the COVID 19 pandemic. It will consider the role of volunteers as part of a community response and the use of community resources. 

The webinar aims to: 

1. bring people together who have examples of how teachers, volunteers and communities can work in a crisis to support continuity of learning for all. The focus is particularly on marginalised learners and the use of volunteers, people, skills, organisations and resources already in communities; 
2. identify and evaluate approaches that enable or build upon community resilience while maintaining safety so as to create exemplars that can be documented and disseminated using a range of methods including the snapshot summaries developed by MESHGuides; 
3. explore the extent and nature of marginalisation of learners to identify key factors that need to be addressed by the different stakeholders in education in their pandemic/disaster recovery documents.