UBC Homemade PPE Initiative
Donation protected
Rationale:
To prevent the spread of Covid-19, The Public Health Agency of Canada has recently recommended wearing non-medical face masks for everyone. To alleviate public demand for medical masks, this initiative aims to create and distribute home-made cloth face masks to non-medical workers in the Downtown Eastside, who are currently not assigned any medical grade protective equipment. We are currently working with volunteer local tailors/seamstresses, but we do not have enough fabric to make the masks. Your donation would go towards purchasing fabric and mask-building materials for this initiative!
Just a small donation of $2.50 can help us mask a front-line community health worker.
Initiative Goals:
Provide home-made face masks for Downtown Eastside non-medical workers (community centre, food bank, housing, etc). They are unfortunately are not assigned medical grade PPE, and are considered the “forgotten workers.”
Expand production to distribute masks to vulnerable families, and patients with Covid-19.
Follow us on Instagram: @bchomemadeppe
Please like our page on Facebook !
If you have sewing skills, or fabric that you would like to contribute to our cause, please fill out this form: https://bit.ly/joinusBCHPI
If you represent a Downtown Eastside organization, order masks here: https://bit.ly/maskorderBCHPI
Masks ready to be distributed
Mask materials ready to be shipped to volunteer seamstresses
Mask made by our volunteer seamstress
To prevent the spread of Covid-19, The Public Health Agency of Canada has recently recommended wearing non-medical face masks for everyone. To alleviate public demand for medical masks, this initiative aims to create and distribute home-made cloth face masks to non-medical workers in the Downtown Eastside, who are currently not assigned any medical grade protective equipment. We are currently working with volunteer local tailors/seamstresses, but we do not have enough fabric to make the masks. Your donation would go towards purchasing fabric and mask-building materials for this initiative!
Just a small donation of $2.50 can help us mask a front-line community health worker.
Initiative Goals:
Provide home-made face masks for Downtown Eastside non-medical workers (community centre, food bank, housing, etc). They are unfortunately are not assigned medical grade PPE, and are considered the “forgotten workers.”
Expand production to distribute masks to vulnerable families, and patients with Covid-19.
Follow us on Instagram: @bchomemadeppe
Please like our page on Facebook !
If you have sewing skills, or fabric that you would like to contribute to our cause, please fill out this form: https://bit.ly/joinusBCHPI
If you represent a Downtown Eastside organization, order masks here: https://bit.ly/maskorderBCHPI
Masks ready to be distributed Mask materials ready to be shipped to volunteer seamstresses Mask made by our volunteer seamstress Organizer and beneficiary
UBC Homemade PPE UBC
Organizer
Vancouver, BC
Shivani Mysuria
Beneficiary