COVID-Bay Area

The COVID-19 pandemic that America witnessed during this year is unlike any crisis the country has been through in a century. In the midst of this gray sky event, the communities across the country have needed significant support. Our Empower and Excel volunteers have risen to the occasion and found ingenious ways to help others in whatever way they can and be a beacon of hope.

Here are some of the ways in which the volunteers have reoriented their efforts within the local communities:

• Physician Support Group (PSG): This initiative is led by a passionate group of physician’s (Dr. Anita Kumari, Dr. Nidhi Gupta, & Dr. Meenakshi Jain) solely to meet the needs of PPE for healthcare professionals in collaboration with E&E.

*Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer’s body from injury or infection. Personal Protective Equipment includes but is not limited to: eye protection, head cover, face shields, N95 respirators, isolation gowns, surgical masks, isolation masks and gloves.

We can’t stop COVID-19 without protecting health workers first. Healthcare workers are desperate for more protection, so we are seeking out supplies wherever we can get them, in this moment of crisis. We need funds to procure PPE and we are turning to our communities we serve, to help our frontline workers, while they heroically take on this challenge to save the lives of our family, friends and neighbors alike.

Thankfully, we all have the power to do something and make a difference. We are empowering individuals, organizations, and communities to step up in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak and help those who need it most. Please donate by clicking donate button.

Your contributions are tax-deductible under Section 501(c)3 of the IRS code (tax id 47-3656395)

PPE Request Form: If you are front-line health care providers in need of PPE in the San Francisco bay area, please complete the following information request form. This will help us prioritize purchase and supplies.

PPE Donation Form: If you would like to donate PPE’s for front-line health care providers in the San Francisco bay area, please fill this form and our volunteers will get in touch with you.

• Snack and Hygiene Kits: For the vulnerable families, many of the basic things we take for granted become a luxury during these crises. Our volunteers have been making snack care packages and personal hygiene packages and reaching out to people in need in a very tangible way.

• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Donations: Frontline health care workers are the unsung heroes of our time. With our generous donors’ support, we have donated gloves, N95, KN95 masks and face shields to various healthcare and medical centers, senior living homes, and nursing care facilities. Brookdale Senior Living, Brownell Residential Care, Hayward Hills Healthcare Centers, Redwood Medical Centers are some of the recipients of these PPE.