[IMPORTANT update on Free Masks for Seniors ] Up till 4/10 17:08, all of our existing available masks are all donated out, including the masks for seniors. Thus we are pausing the online request and delivery service for seniors until future notice. If you have not received our confirmation about the drop off, please come come back to our website for next such activity. Thanks.

As of today, we have proudly donated a total of 15770 masks to the hospitals, local cities, local stores and our community.

Below is a summary:

The hospitals and clinics we donated to are:

• Kaiser Santa Clara: 1300 (500 N95 and 800 surgical)
• Valley Health Center Urgent Care:  1290 (690 N95 and 600 surgical)
• Alta Bates Summit Medical Center: 210 (50 N95 and 160 surgical)
• San Francisco Department of Public Health: 210 (50 N95 and 160 surgical)Stanford Medicine: 200 N95
• Veterans Affairs Hospital: 340
• O’Connor Hospital: 3500
• Asian American Home Health: 300

The local businesses and departments we have donated to are:Sunnyvale

• USPS: 600
• Smart & Final at Mary & Fremont: 200
• Sunnyvale City & DPS: 2800
• San Jose DPS: 1000
• Sunnyvale Post Acute: 500

And 3000 masks for community seniors!

We distributed at 3 Safeway stores on Tuesday 4/7. And we also started online request and delivery on the same day to avoid the need for our seniors to have get out of their houses.

So far the cities we have covered for senior delivery are:

• Sunnyvale
• Mountain View
• Cupertino
• San Jose
• Santa Clara
• Los Altos

Kudos to our delivery volunteers! They have delivered 1480 masks right to the door steps of our senior members of the community in the last week! Brian, Adriana, Swomi, Michele and Thea, thank you!

For those who have received their free masks, please refer to this link to learn how to use masks properly, trust me, you need to read this instruction!

And that is 15770 masks donated in two weeks in total!

We are so grateful to have a strong team of volunteers who have made this project a huge success, and who have made our community a true unity! We are also very proud to have such a strong community where everyone is trying to help others! Here is a link to a very touching story (We are indeed #OneCommunity!) on our Facebook page.

Thank you very much, our hard working volunteer team! We started small with 18 friends just two weeks ago, and now we are already much stronger with 45 friends and still counting!

As of 4/10, we have received $18,254 monetary donation and goods donation of 7570 masks. Thank you very much everyone for having donated masks and money to this project, we made it together!

We are truly #OneCommunity and #StrongerTogether each day!

And we are having another shipment of masks on the way, fingers crossed! So stay tuned and please keep us in your prayers too!

While we are all waiting for the next wave of mask donations by this project, we are also preparing for the busy work ahead! Please consider join the volunteer team by sending an email to : projectstronger2020@gmail.com

Our philosophy: Even if we can prevent just one community member from contracting that COVID-19 virus, all of our efforts will be worthy!!!

If you want to donate to support us so we can purchase more masks, please go here:

https://www.svcaf.org/strongertogether/#

And your donation will be tax deductible and corporation match-able.

For further update about hospitals donation request or senior donation request, please like and share our Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/projectstrongertogether

Thank you very much!

Until next shipment of masks!

Team Project #StrongerTogether

4/10/2020