Deliveroo Expands Commitment to Riders and Communities with First Aid Training

Deliveroo extends its commitment to the riders it collaborates with and the cities in which it operates. In recent weeks, in fact, together with the Italian Red Cross, the leading online food delivery platform has extended first aid courses to active riders in the city of Naples. Started in Milan and Rome - and then continued in Cagliari, Florence, Turin, Verona, and Genoa - the sessions aim to provide them with knowledge and information on how to correctly alert the rescue system and how to make the call to 118/112; how to recognize an emergency by assessing the conditions of the injured and self-protection; how to implement first aid interventions, including Basic Life Support (BLS) maneuvers. But also information on traumas, illnesses, wounds, and hemorrhages. The Genoa course - organized as part of the broader partnership that links Deliveroo to the Italian Red Cross for community support - was delivered by the CRI committee of Naples, at the headquarters in Corso San Giovanni a Teduccio, 45. The participation of the riders, who collaborate as freelance workers with the platform, is on a voluntary basis. "Naples is a very important city for Deliveroo, which has always shown to appreciate our service. Also in this city, as in all the territories and communities where we are present, we want to be protagonists not only by innovating the way of doing catering and producing new business opportunities, growth, and work. We also want to be protagonists from a social point of view." "And it is in this context that the first aid courses made available to riders collaborating with Deliveroo in Naples fit in. In fact, these are training sessions that expand and enrich the personal skills of the riders, whose presence, in the cities where we operate, can prove to be really precious for those who might find themselves in need," said Matteo Sarzana, General Manager Deliveroo Italy. "Making communities more resilient and capable of responding to emergencies has always been a priority for the Italian Red Cross. For this reason, the Volunteers of the CRI in various Committees are engaged daily in awareness and training activities in first aid, initiatives that are also aimed at schools and the younger generation. The goal is to make more and more people capable of intervening to save human lives, should there be a need. I thank Deliveroo, which has been collaborating with us for years, for having immediately shown great attention and sensitivity to this issue," said Edoardo Italia, Vice President and Representative of the Youth of the CRI. In addition to the involvement, on a voluntary basis, of the riders who collaborate with Deliveroo, the partnership with the Italian Red Cross also includes projects and initiatives that involve the users of the platform and the same team employed at the Italian offices of Deliveroo. Deliveroo, which has long directly supported the CRI, has also launched a fundraising campaign active on the app that all users can participate in: through the development of a new technology feature, Deliveroo indeed gives its customers the possibility to round up the bill at the time of payment and donate the difference to the Italian Red Cross. The sums collected are used by the CRI to distribute food to people and families in difficulty, thus combating food poverty. The members of the Deliveroo Italy team are instead involved in corporate volunteering activities that see them support the volunteers of the Italian Red Cross in packaging food parcels destined for those in need. The corporate volunteering sessions take place in the hubs of the Italian Red Cross in the main cities where Deliveroo is present and operates.