Zuckerberg SF General Thanks It Takes A Village Bay Area

San Francisco, CA – A caravan of 4 cars of parents and high school students crossed the Bay Bridge from the SF East Bay journeying all the way from the East Bay to donate 1,000 face shields and 1,400 face masks to Zuckerberg SF General. They were met with an enthusiastic crowd of ER health care workers who have been receiving donations from the group since mid-March.

By this Friday, It Takes A Village Bay Area would have donated to Zuckerberg SF General:

3,495 face masks

1,000 KN95

2,100 face shields

The current run of 4,400 face shields was assembled by 25 high school students in less than a week for scheduled deliveries of 2,000 to Zuckerberg SF General and 2400 to Alameda Health Systems this week. The group’s next run will be 6,000 face shields to donate to other Bay Area hospitals in need.

Founder Shelly Wong of It Takes A Village comments, “It is a thrill to be met with such an enthusiastic crowd of health care workers and to see the smiles on their faces as they open the cartons and see the face masks and shields. We are working on increasing donations to us of fabric, face shield material, cardboard cartons and/or funds to help fund Zuckerberg’s request of 10,000 face masks and 5,000 face shields.”

It Takes A Village has set up a GoFundMe to help offset costs associated with the mask and face shield production. Donations are tax deductible through the fiscal agent TMC Community Capital, an Oakland based micro-loan provider.

To donate, go to GOFUNDME page:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/making-and-donating-face-masks-and-face-shields

Website:

https://www.it-takes-a-village.org/

It Takes A Village Bay Area has partnered with Bryan and Michelle Walker, co-founders of Bryn Walker, a women's clothing company located in Berkeley, California, who donated the majority of fabric and elastic. The community group of over 200 volunteers has now donated over 12,600 hand sewn cloth face masks, 6,400 KN95 masks, and 5,200 face shields to SF, East Bay, Santa Clara and NY primarily public Hospitals. The It Takes A Village Bay Area, Bryn Walker masks are distinctive in their stylish fabric offerings and 100% made in the USA woven cotton fabric.

The group also donated quantities to the City and County of San Francisco, the SF Sheriff’s Department and San Francisco’s Child Protective Services to be distributed to communities in need. San Francisco Mayor London Breed is photographed wearing a stylish It Takes A Village, Bryn Walker fabric face mask at the start of Universal Masking in mid April.

The Village received a donated roll of Coca Cola PETG that is being laser cut at https://www.m0xy.com/ an artist industrial community located in Oakland that is donating a portion of laser cutting time. A multitude of moving companies helped the group source cardboard cartons to pack the shields 50 each.

To date, donations include the following local hospitals and hospital systems:

Alameda Health Systems (requested 8,000 face masks), Zuckerberg San Francisco General (requested 10,000 face masks), Santa Clara Valley County Medical, Palo Alto VA, Martinez VA, Laguna Honda, Chinese Hospital -SF, Sutter Health San Francisco, and Mission Neighborhood Health Center, San Francisco, UCSF San Francisco.

It Takes A Village is a volunteer group of 200 people using their time while sheltering in place to make masks and face shields for healthcare workers. The group also repackages and distributes donated hand sanitizer, and PPE to hospitals in need.