Don't bring COVID home! Kits for MDs and RNs in NM

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Don't bring COVID home! Kits for MDs and RNs in NM

**5/26/20 Update**  We are so close to our goal!!  Thanks to your generosity, we have been able to deliver over 500 decontamination stations to frontline healthcare workers around the state of New Mexico!  We are determined to reach 1,000 decontamination kits, so please consider donating again or sharing the link to this GoFundMe on your social media or through email: Dont bring COVID home 

Special thanks to Vitality Works for their donation of 500 bottles of hand sanitizer!!

Take a look at the pics from last week:
From top left:  John & Leticia Leyba of Leyba Custom Home Builders (entire family pitched in!!), National Guard Truck loaded with decontamination stations, delivery for San Juan Regional Medical Center, Regina EMTs got some kits, Rehoboth Hospital workers are smiling under those masks, letter to healthcare workers from the talented Mateo from Mr. Valdez's 5th grade class at Bandelier Elementary, delivering kits to the Dzilth-Na-O-Dith-Hle Health Center.

Support local businesses - they support our communities!
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**5/18/20 Update**  Thanks to your generosity, and to the donations of some lovely businesses listed below, we are now hoping to send 1,000 decontamination kits to frontline healthcare workers around the state of New Mexico!!  Thank you for demonstrating that New Mexico is united in caring, and thank you, healthcare workers!
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Almost all of my friends in New Mexico are doctors. Time and again, I have watched them put their patients first and themselves last. I started making decontamination kits for them because I didn't want them to die of COVID-19 or to accidentally bring it home and infect their families.  I also wanted some way I could help, since they are sacrificing so much. And, to be honest, my friends are scared of COVID.  We have to help.


Our frontline healthcare workers in NM are some of the hardest-working in the nation.  We're not a rich state, so we don't have a ton of resources.  Even so, our healthcare teams always somehow make do with what they have.

Now my clinical friends and some neighbors are all pitching in and we're making as many decontamination kits as we can to protect our healthcare workers in NM.  The kits are also a great way to say "thank you" to the front line.

I'm not a doctor or a nurse, and I can't save anyone's life, but I can do this.  And, you can, too, by donating to our fund and helping us to buy the supplies for the decontamination kits.

Each $10 kit includes:
   -Spray bottle with disinfectant
   -Garbage bags for contaminated clothes
   -Ziplock bags for keys & cellphone
   -Plastic container for contaminated shoes
   -Instructions for setting up a decontamination station at home
   -Phone number for the NM hotline for healthcare workers in need of help

Our next delivery with the National Guard is on Friday, May 22, so please donate soon.  We will continue making the kits as the donations roll in (so if you missed the 5/22 deadline, you can make the next run).

Help me keep them safe.  Thank you and thank you, NM healthcare workers!!
-Siobhan + Drs. Sarah, Heidi & Frances


Growing List of Awesome Helpers:
-Robin C. for her help with the National Guard & NM Chapters
-Sandia Green Clean for donating the disinfectant
-Emilio, Nick & Christina & the team at the Eubank Home Depot for their generous donation of supplies
-Dominic, Kenneth & Solomon for their assembling work
-Leyba Custom Builders for their help with donations (especially Leticia for sewing the ear savers!)
-The Cleanery for their donation
-Costco for their donation
-Vitality Works for donating 500 bottles of hand sanitizer
-Governor Lujan Grisham for connecting us to the National Guard, and for standing by healthcare workers and New Mexicans during the pandemic!  #StayHomeSaveLives #AllTogetherNM

Co-organizers2

Siobhan Kilbride
Organizer
Albuquerque, NM
Sarah Popek
Co-organizer
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