Send PPE to Beauval

UPDATE:
Thank you Moe Clark, YuMee Chung, Michelle Thrush, Victoria Hunt, Anik Sioui, mau caron, Amanda Roy, Michelle Smith, Christina Sciascia, Hélène Brousseau, Nina Segalowitz, Kathleen Troy, Janie Dolan, Lise Weil, Tara Beagan, Gabriel Villeneuve, April Mullen, stace mullen, faye mullen, Geremia Lorenzo Lodi, Stella Sylvest, Natasha Robillard, Victoria May, Avis Anderson, Donita Large,  Natasha Alexander, Bill Yong, Eleuthera Diconca-Lippert, soph earls, Jayal Chung,  Katherine Kasirer, Frédéric Brouillet, Tealey Normandin, anouk thériault, Daphne Lorian, Elizabeth Fast, Jay Pitter, David Fargey, dona n, Carter for Matisse, Elise Moser, Elise Moser, laurence lainesse, Paul Lapointe, cheryl Mitchell, JoAnne Fishburn, Merna Brostoff, Richard Fung, Melanie Egan, Colin Gordon, Meg MacKay, Naomi Campbell, Numila Alvarez, Donna Cowan, Parris Sander, Trudy Shields, Marion de Vries, Laura St Amant, Christine Baigen, Rebecca Singh, Mira Goldstein, Alisa Gayle, Kerry Potts, Charlotte Engel, Susan Blight, Brenda Kamino, Barb Thomas, D’Arcy Martin, Marge Somkuti, Michelle Martin, Hannah Claus, Cathy Gordon


Through your generous donations fabric was purchased for 150 reusable cloth masks, 50 cloth gowns, and 50 cloth caps were sewn by Jessica Farell, Shawn Grey, Gabriella Caruso and Camilo Giraldo, with the support of Red Pepper Spectacle Arts, a non-profit community arts organization based in Toronto, Cece Scrivner of Courage My Love, and Renée Strasfeld of The Sewing Army.

Thank you also to:
Annarres Apothecary who donated and sent 32 thermometers, school supplies (lined notebooks, markers, pens, pencils), mask friendly headbands and a box of various seeds (squash, Zapatista blue corn, tomato, kale, pole bean, pumpkin). Thanks to Monique Mojica for liaising, to Tracey Kolowska who sewed the excellent masks we sold to raise the money for the thermometers, and to Beaux Magique for sponsoring the headbands.

@faceshieldsTO for making and sending 50 face shields -- thank you Luc Debois, Ombretta Debois, Charlotte Debois, and Susan Feldman and Sara Booth for connecting us and shipping the shields.

Kelley MacCready who sent supplies, Alex Rebecca Singh for connecting us, Vicki Sather and Jake Moore who offered to drive supplies up there. A huge thanks to the Student Medical Society Saskatchewan who shipped supplies to Beauval with surplus funds from their La Loche fundraiser. 

Thanks to Monique Mojica, Denise Bolduc, Shawn Grey, Doreen Docken, Candyce Paul, Pura Fe, Marcos Arcentales, and Gisèle Gordon for organizing and Shirley Morin and for cordinating.


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The village of Beauval in northern Saskatchewan has a COVID-19 outbreak and urgently needs protective equipment and clothing for those caring for ill community members. Beauval and the whole region is under strict government enforced lockdown. Checkpoints prevent people from leaving or entering unless they are on essential business.

This campaign is to raise money for fabric that volunteers will use to make 50 washable masks, caps and gowns/scrubs. Funds will also be used to ship these and other needed protective equipment to Beauval.

We have reached our initial goal of sending PPE to Beauval, but are still collecting funds for additional supplies and food to send to the community.  

Other ways of helping:
 
If individuals are able to purchase any of the following supplies, please mail them to Beauval to the Attention of:
Shirley Morin, Logistics & Operations
Beauval Incident Command Centre
PO Box 157 (or 308 Lavoie St.)
Beauval, SK
S0M 0G0

MEDICAL SUPPLIES:
-nitrile gloves 10 boxes of 100 size XL
-100 spray bottles
-thermometers x 50
-boxes of Kleenex x 100
-bleach and sanitizing products
-blue shop towels (to be used as filters for cloth masks)
-tightly woven cotton fabric and elastic (to make cloth masks)

FOOD:
as much non-perishable food as possible, such as:
-rice
-macaroni
-canned meat
-canned tuna/salmon
-canned soup/stews
-powdered milk
-baby formula
-flour
-oats, barley, beans, etc.

SCHOOL SUPPLIES:
120 students are doing distance learning, only 20 laptops were provided
-tablets, ipads, laptops for home-study would be appreciated
-math & writing workbooks
-science and educational books
-pencils, sharpeners, erasers, pencil crayons
-notebooks

Thank you to Shawn Grey and all the other volunteers at the Toronto-based group The Sewing Army for sewing the caps, masks and gowns. If you wish to  help sew these or other needed items, please see their website for patterns and details: http://thesewingarmy.com/

Thank you to volunteers for 3-D printing and donating 50 plastic face shields.

This fundraiser is organized by Friends of Beauval, a group of friends based in Toronto with friends and/or family in Beauval including, but not limited to, Monique Mojica, Denise Bolduc, Shawn Grey, and Gisèle Gordon.