Today we hit an awesome milestone – we delivered our 2000th mask!
The current tally looks like this:
– Hand-sewn Masks – 2000
– Repaired Masks – 1300
– Shields – 254
– Gowns – 62 (we’re still working out a good design…)
– Hand Sanitizer – 325 bottles
– Earsavers – 180
– Portable Hand Wash Stations – 3
All told? Over 4000 units of various PPE to the city’s Emergency Operations Center!
OK, we’re numbers geeks, but here’s the cool thing. From the Lynn City Hall website, the Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 page, they say this:
“The City of Lynn is working closely with North Shore Medical Center and Lynn Community Health Center to distribute care kits to high-risk Lynn residents. The kits include basic educational materials, masks, sanitizing supplies and other personal care items. Over 10,000 care kits have been distributed over the last two weeks to the following locations: Salvation Army, My Brother’s Table, Greater Lynn Senior Services, Lynn Economic Opportunity, Lynn School Department Grab & Go Lunch Program (English, Classical, Tech & Marshall), Bridgewell, Centerboard, New American Center, and Lynn Housing Authority.”
Out of the 10,000 kits they’ve delivered, we’ve supplied 4000 units of PPE for them to include. Them ain’t bad numbers!
A huge thanks goes out to all the people sewing these masks, the folks printing and assembling shields, wielding hot glue guns to fix masks, mixing and packing sanitizer and the Food Project for throwing the Portable Hand Wash Station challenge at us!
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Stay healthy and take care of each other.
Ted Dillard
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