Mycare, the online support worker platform, today announced all disability users, their families and whanau can use Mycare without paying subscription or service fees during the lockdown in New Zealand.
It is also offering its services at no cost to NGO’s who want to use Mycare’s platform to manage and mobilise volunteer services to the community.
“We want to help at a time when access to community support workers is critical,” says Mycare director Mark Jeffries.
Jeffries says the lockdown is putting pressure on families and whanau needing to find support workers for essential services.
Most Mycare users and their families are from the disabled community, older people, or people with injuries. The company is seeing an upturn in kiwis who are offshore or somewhere else in New Zealand arranging extra help back here for their whanau.
Jeffries says one new issue is PPE such as masks and gloves for families and their support workers. “The DHBs were fantastic, they worked through last weekend to deliver PPE to us so now we can distribute PPE to families and their workers.”
