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📣 rrauenza

Soliciting Donations for Maker Nexus Making PPE's for Covid19


I don't do solicitation, but this is a good enough cause that now I am. I've become the person I never thought I'd be. I am personally volunteering with a non-profit that is making a critical health care item and giving them away to hospitals.

I'm writing in the hope you would pass this on, hoping it finds some corporate philanthropist who would be interested in funding this excellent cause I volunteer for making face shields needed by health care workers. I thought you might have a network that reaches far.

You probably know that there is a critical shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers in this crisis. I know of one nurse who works at a major hospital in San Jose say, "we're making face shields from shower curtains and hot glue". I asked a doctor friend who works at a free clinic in SF if they are running out of face shields and he said, "are you kidding? We have never had any."

You probably don't know that the non-profit I volunteer for (Maker Nexus) is busy making them and giving them away! We've turned our whole makerspace into a face shield factory. It's a war and we are in the thick of it.

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  👤 sharemywin Accepted Answer ✓
curious about ventilator parts.