We started a KN95 mask drive to support the New England community medical soldiers who are working on the frontline with COVID-19 patients and experiencing extreme shortage of PPE. The community has generously supported our drive enabling us to donate 1150 KN95 masks to 12 hospitals that had the most need in the New England area. 100% of the donations go to buying KN95 masks with no overhead of delivery of masks to hospitals or paying fees to PayPal/Venmo. We anticipate nursing homes and other VA hospitals to have needs in the coming month that we are already gearing up our drive for.
In this unexpected war between humanity vs. virus we have decided to proactively engage at grass roots level to solve PPE problem for medical staff and giving back to the community especially in challenging times and bring together individual skills, resources and strengths to build an organic drive from initiation to execution. Many New England members are looking for such organizations to contribute and we are glad to bring them this drive.
The drive is run by three passionate New England women – Gunjan Kuthiala from Merrimack, NH (Founder, CEO NRILIFE productions and Managing Partner Jobgini), Twinkle Morbia from Shrewsbury, MA (Entrepreneur, Syna’s Collection and Krish Enterprises) and Sunanda Pepalla from Acton, MA (Chief of Staff Operations, Dell Global CT Office and Founder of American Alpha Assets LLC).
We all have our reasons for the drive but with the same end goal to help medical frontline staff.
Sunanda says “I brought my work skills of solving problems and passion to give back to the medical staff and community to address the need of the hour. I had already been doing individual donations in my personal capacity and when Twinkle called to joined hands, it was a no-brainer and this drive was born”.
Gunjan says “I personally feel, am doing this drive for my own selfish reasons which is first, my husband is asthmatic & I love all my friends/community members and having lived here for 17 years, I didn’t want to experience the nightmare of medical system to collapse in this pandemic war and being a warrior by trait, did what my gut/survival instinct suggested.”
Twinkle says “The drive was an outcome of my desperation to help the community during self-quarantine as I had just returned from India. One phone call to my friend Sunanda led to the birth of this drive and there was no looking back”.
To donate to this cause, you can
Venmo to: Twinkle Morbia (Please use these hashtags #venmoitforward #venmo #helpothers #payitforward #kn95maskdrive)
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