Kavita Kar, a sophomore at Wheeler High School, has gotten in touch to let the public now about a fundraising drive she’s started to purchase N95 masks for hospital workers in the Atlanta area treating those with COVID-19.
She’s set a fundraising goal of $6,300, and on Sunday morning told us she’s more than halfway there—with around $3,300 in pledges.
Kavita says the masks, which are coming from China, will be given to staffs at both Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta and Northside Hospital in Atlanta.
Here’s what she’s sharing on her GoFundMe page:
“We will be shipping the masks from the Guangzhou port. These masks will take 9 days to ship to our hospitals, and the sooner we can ship them, the sooner our doctors and nurses are able to use them.
Each mask costs $1.30 and $6,000 will help us provide for hospitals in our area. Each dollar that is raised will help a doctor or a nurse get through a day at work, a little bit safer than they were.”
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