Sewing Masks for Healthcare Workers during COVID19
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All over the globe, whole countries are in crisis. Communities are coming together in response to the chaos caused by the COVID-19 virus. Everywhere the story has become the same: medical providers don't have enough supplies, particularly masks, to protect them from getting sick themselves.
In the US, private companies and manufacturers are just now starting to mass-produce this much-needed equipment, but when it will reach local hospitals is unclear. In Chicago, the number of cases has been increasing exponentially, and the health care system is bracing for the worst.
Caring for Community wants to answer the call from medical institutions to sew and donate face masks to prevent shortages during the critical time. While these hand-sewn masks have a double layer of 100% cotton and are reinforced with an interfacing filter, they are no substitute for the N95 masks that are needed the most.
We ask that we collectively push our leaders and politicians to call for more N95 masks to be given to healthcare workers treating COVID-19 patients, but we cannot leave them naked while we wait for results!
Caring for Community is spearheaded by Kaleigh Moynihan. She is a fashion designer for her own label An Authentic Skidmark and a professional seamstress. Because of Illinois's shelter-in-place mandate, she is unable to work for the costume rental house that employs her.
However, she wants to put her skills and work ethic to use to help fill these shortages, but as she is without income, she cannot afford to purchase the supplies needed to mass-produce these masks.
That's why we have set up this GoFundMe, to ask you for financial support in procuring materials so we can continue to make and donate these masks. Ten reusable masks cost roughly $15 to make, so every dollar counts!
As we reach our funding goals, we will gauge the support we have received with the aim to continue this project for as long as the crisis lasts. Our community's healthcare providers are working hard and we want to support them as long as they need us!
Caring for Community is also supported by Jeremy Saxon who is locating institutions and organizations that need masks the most and distributing them accordingly.
In the US, private companies and manufacturers are just now starting to mass-produce this much-needed equipment, but when it will reach local hospitals is unclear. In Chicago, the number of cases has been increasing exponentially, and the health care system is bracing for the worst.
Caring for Community wants to answer the call from medical institutions to sew and donate face masks to prevent shortages during the critical time. While these hand-sewn masks have a double layer of 100% cotton and are reinforced with an interfacing filter, they are no substitute for the N95 masks that are needed the most.
We ask that we collectively push our leaders and politicians to call for more N95 masks to be given to healthcare workers treating COVID-19 patients, but we cannot leave them naked while we wait for results!
Caring for Community is spearheaded by Kaleigh Moynihan. She is a fashion designer for her own label An Authentic Skidmark and a professional seamstress. Because of Illinois's shelter-in-place mandate, she is unable to work for the costume rental house that employs her.
However, she wants to put her skills and work ethic to use to help fill these shortages, but as she is without income, she cannot afford to purchase the supplies needed to mass-produce these masks.
That's why we have set up this GoFundMe, to ask you for financial support in procuring materials so we can continue to make and donate these masks. Ten reusable masks cost roughly $15 to make, so every dollar counts!
As we reach our funding goals, we will gauge the support we have received with the aim to continue this project for as long as the crisis lasts. Our community's healthcare providers are working hard and we want to support them as long as they need us!
Caring for Community is also supported by Jeremy Saxon who is locating institutions and organizations that need masks the most and distributing them accordingly.
Fundraising team: Caring for Community (2)
Kaleigh Moynihan
Organizer
Chicago, IL
Jeremy Saxon
Team member