SERVICES YOUR DONATIONS WILL SUPPORT:
- Health restoration hotline for Health Workers at all levels of care.
- Coordinate the local flow of needed intensive care health professionals, refreshed health workers and healthy volunteers.
- Provide logistic support in designing and building command centers and makeshift health services.
- Reach those in need, including individuals and families experiencing homelessness, single parent families, people with HIV/AIDS, immigrants and seniors. For example, one of the COVID-19 Family Care emergency kits sponsors can purchase and donate for $500: $450 goes directly to one vulnerable family through digital gift cards for emergency supplies such as food, pharmacy needs, and cleaning products; $50 goes to maintaining emergency remote and in-person services for homeless and at-risk families.
- Reduce isolation among older adults. The group needs donors to sponsor care packages and volunteers to call elderly people in the community who have difficulty leaving the house. Our volunteers shop for and deliver essentials to an elderly and/or immunocompromised neighbors.
- Purchase and deliver prescription medication services. Purchase and prepare and food and fruits. Help build emergency food bags and prepare fresh produce.
- Pick up perishable and prepared food from businesses and deliver it in vehicles directly to neighborhood food programs. Deliver household delivery of free groceries to elderly, families, homeless and first responders.
- Deliver hot meals to elderly, families, homeless and first responders using takeout containers to deliver hot meals three times daily. Deliver Updated Coronavirus Preventive Health instruction flyers to apartment buildings and homes.
- Deliver donated PPE Personal Protective Equipment directly to Health Workers and other First Responders.
- Coordinate community outdoor activity to ensure Brooklyn reduce density and increase social distancing.
- Deliver mental health flyers to help overwhelmed health workers and first responders cope with burnout, working under pressure without the support they need, how to have difficult conversations to avoid suffering in silence.