We are students at Woodside School in the Bay Area who are deeply concerned about frontline healthcare workers and the COVID-19 pandemic.  Many of our close family members are working on the frontline, caring for patients and animals. 

This is Dr. Jenny Lin.  She works hard in New York City helping patients at Mount Sinai.

This is Dr. Helen Hu. She is a veterinarian in Maryland helping sick animals and pets.

There are people on the frontline in our local community who need equipment to help keep them safe. If the workers at hospitals can’t protect themselves then they could also get COVID-19. Having COVID-19 renders them unable to work and help out in the hospital. They could also spread the disease to their peers and affect more people. Right now, there is a huge shortage of masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE). PPE supplies include masks, gowns, and gloves.

We are helping 3 local Bay Area institutions that are smaller and don’t have as much access to PPE.  

1. Seton Medical Center 

The Seton Medical Center which serves the low income and at-risk population in Daly City is seeing a large number of COVID-19 cases, and they are running out of PPE supplies very quickly.  The city has not been answering their calls for help. This is very problematic because if they don’t respond soon then they won't have enough materials to help their patients. 

2. Hospice by the Bay 

Hospice by the Bay is a hospice much in need of N95 masks. They were very grateful when we offered the masks to them. Hospice by the Bay is a nonprofit hospice, founded in 1975 and was the first hospice in California, and the second in the United States. Hospice by the Bay partnered with UCSF in 2015 so they could help even more people. We chose Hospice by the Bay because they seemed like they really needed the masks since not many people donated masks to them. Please consider donating to them if not us or even both! It’s great if you donate just a little bit and people appreciate every single thing you donate. 

3. PAMF 

The Palo Alto Medical Foundation, or PAMF, is a bigger more well known medical foundation. PAMF is part of a bigger organization called Sutter Health. Sutter Health and PAMF strive to provide high quality medical care but still keep it affordable for many people. Sutter Health, and therefore also PAMF, is a not-for-profit organization. This means that the profits they earn go right back into PAMF itself to get more supplies and equipment to help the community. Many of us are patients here at PAMF, and some of our personal friends have parents who work there as well.


We pulled our allowance money and have gotten funding of $6000 from our parents to procure 2400 3M KN5 masks and 100 surgical masks, and we are donating them to these three organizations.  

We made our first donation of N95 and surgical masks to Seton Medical Center on April 17


Our goal is to raise another $6000.  With the money we raise, we can purchase more N95 and surgical masks to donate to these organizations.  

Please join in this fight against COVID-19 by helping us supply the frontline healthcare workers in need of N95 and surgical masks. Any donation, even the smallest amount, helps!

Donations in kind
If you have unused and unopened medical personal protective equipment (medical grade face masks, face shields, gloves, hand sanitizer) you would like to donate, please contact us at [email redacted]

Thank you for your help!!!

Harrison (7th grade), Phoebe (4th grade), and Elisabeth Chen (Kindergarten)

Credits:
Research and Writing: Harrison and Phoebe
Outreach: Phoebe
Photo gatherer: Elisabeth

Shout out:
Lisa Lei of Eastern Bell Venture Capital  based in Shanghai has generously supplied us with six shipments of medical grade surgical masks!  Thank you, Lisa!!

Dr. Sylvia He of Hyfinity Investment based in Beijing offered early support in connecting us with 3M suppliers.  We appreciate your thoughtfulness!

Our first donation in kind of 400 3M KN95 masks was the generous gift from The Li family. Their efforts to help Boston area hospitals inspired us to help institutions in need in the Bay Area.  Please check out their fundraising efforts  and consider helping them as well. 

Our original inspiration
Our grandparents are epidemiologists who helped develop a vaccine for Typhoid (our Grandma) in the 1990s and led research on the SARS epidemic (our Grandpa) in 2003.