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Two graduates of the University of Murcia collect and send letters of encouragement to 35 hospitals throughout Spain (01/04/2020)

Yolanda Ruano and Jennifer Fuentes, two graduates of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Murcia, have been coordinating the 'Manuscript Letter Week' project for five years which, in connection with the acts of commemoration of Book Day, puts in contact thousands of people who exchange and send missives by post, the old-fashioned way.

This year, the situation generated by the state of alarm due to COVID-2019 has put the call on hold, but they have decided to take advantage of the impulse of so many people eager to write and thus contribute their grain of sand to overcome this crisis.

For days, both collect and send letters with messages of encouragement and positivity to 35 hospitals throughout Spain.

Although their project is related to handwritten letters, this time the letters they request and are forwarding are via email, to make shipping easier.

Every day they join all the emails received and send them to the hospital centers in two remittances, one at noon and one at night.

All hospitals receive the same letters, so they can multiply messages of encouragement to patients and families.

Letters, audio letters, poems, stories, drawings are sent in emails ... any kind of support message is welcome.

"The hospitals answer us and thank us for the work we are doing, they tell us that it is very positive for the sick, they tell us that they print the letters and read them to them daily. They already know us and are waiting for our emails," they explain.

In order to continue this work, they need more letters and people who want to write them.

Faculty from the University of Murcia is collaborating with the project by encouraging their students to write, but more volunteers are needed to continue sending new letters every day.

Support messages can be sent through the email semanadelacartamanuscrita@gmail.com

Source: Universidad de Murcia

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