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As of 04/19/2020, the Houston Tsinghua Alumni Assoication (HTAA) has donated the following personal protective equipement (PPE):To Houston local goverment entities: 30,000 surgical masks, 2,400 KN95 masks, and 200 face shields
To hospitals and clinics: 11,900 KN95 masks, 1,540 medical grade N95 masks, and 500 sugical masks
To individual healthcare workers and first responders (20 KN 95 masks per person): 5,440 KN95 masks (our goal is to distribute a total of 10,000 masks)
To local commnunity senior personnel (2 pc each): 1,000 surgical masks.
Our donation has covered more than 10 local goverment entities, 30 hospitals and clinics, more than 272 individual healthcare workers and first responders, and 500 senior personnel. Our total donation of PPE is worth $65,600.
A news report of the masks donation by the HTAA to Houston individual healthcare workers and first responders could be found in the folloiwng link, covered by the Houston Chronicle on Sunday 04/19/2020:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/amp/Chinese-university-alumni-group-donates-masks-to-15211556.php
Donation to Houston local goverment entitiesDonation to hospitals and clinics
Snapshots of the HTAA doncations since 04/14/2020
On Tuesday 04/14/2020, Housotn Chronicle covered a PPE donation drive to the City of Sugar Land, launched by the Together, We are Stronger Coalition. Sugar Land Mayor Joe Zimmerman expressed his appreciation for the donated medical supplies that included PPE donated by the Houston Tsinghua Alumni Assoicaiton.
The links could be found below:https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/sugarland/news/article/Together-We-are-Stronger-Coalition-donates-15194588.php
On Tuesday 04/14/2020, the HTAA donated another 2,000 surgical masks to the Houston Police Officer's Union. The Chairman of the Houston Police Officers' Union Joe Gamaldi accepted the donation on behalf of the Union, and expressed their sincere appreciation to the generous donation. Texas State Rep. Gene Wu attended the donation. The HTAA has donated a total of 4,000 surgical masks and 500 KN95 masks to the Houston Police Officers' Union, including donation from last Friday 04/10/2020.
On Wednesday 04/15/2020, the HTAA donated 500 surgical masks to the American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
On Thursday 04/16/2020, Congressman Al Green initiated a PPE Donation Drive to the frontline medical workers and first responders. The PPE Donation Drive was held at the Stafford Center in the City of Sugar Land. During this PPE Donation Drive, the HTAA donated 10,000 surgical masks that were distributed equally to the Fort Bend County, the City of Stafford, and the City of Missouri. Mayors of the cities, police officers, and firefighters accepted the donations. This PPE Donation Drive has attracted donations from multiple racial and ethnic groups and individuals including Asian communities.
On Thursday 04/16/2020, in order to meet the urgent need of masks from Houston Police Office Precint 5, the HTAA donated 2,000 surgical masks to the officers. In addition, the Houston Police Office Precint 5 bought another 6,000 surgical masks from the HTAA. The HTAA will use the money to order another 10,000 surgical masks from China.
On Thursday 04/16/2020, the HTAA donated 100 surgical masks to Dairy Ashford Family Practice.
On Saturday 04/18/2020, during the surgical masks donation to the community drive initiated by Texas State Rep. Gene Wu, the HTAA donated and distributed 1,000 surgical masks (500 packets with 2 masks per packet). The masks donation to the community drive was held at the Chinese Community Center, 9800 Town Park Dr, Houston, TX 77036.
The link of the drive is as follows:https://mobile.twitter.com/GeneforTexas/status/1251318553241882624?s=20&from=groupmessage&isappinstalled=0
Snapshots of individual healthcare workers and first responders picking up packets of 20 masks donated by the Houston Tsinghua Alumni Associaiton.
To date, we have raised $48,967 in U.S. dollars plus ¥83,050 in Chinese Yuan. In-kind donations include:50,000 surgical masks donated by Dongguan Lingying Precision Manufacturing and Technology Company, of which 42,000 masks have arrived Houston6,770 surgical masks20 3M medical grade N95 masks230 3M standard N95 masks100 non‐3M brand N95 masks200 KN95 masks25 DuPont protective gowns3 pairs of protective medical goggles400 pairs of gloves20 surgical caps.
We expressed our sincere appreciation to the generous donations from alumni and friends. On Saturday 04/18/2020, we received donation from our friend Russel Zhao including 20 surgical caps, 400 pairs of gloves, 2 pairs of protective medical goggles, and 220 surgical masks (these donations have been included in the above list).
Thank you all, for your compassion, caring, and camaraderie in this time of COVID‐19. We are all in this battle together and we shall prevail. Donation list:
We express our most sincere gratitude to all the alumni, friends and families for their generous donations.
The HTAA volunteers:President: Mr. Deqing YangVice President: Ms. Sylvia Qiaosha He, Mr. Dong WangProcurement: Mr. Hongbo Ma, Ms. Xiaowei ZouDonation coordinator: Mr. Jin WangTreasurer: Ms. Sylvia Qiaosha He, Mr. Hao ChenCommunications: Ms. Yujing Du, Ms. Tingting Lu, Ms. Xiudong LeiDistribution: Mr. Wenjun Zeng, Mr. Hao Chen, Mr. Dong Wang, Mr. Xiaobo Huang, Mr. Guang LiHospital coordinator: Mr. Guang Li, Ms. Xiaowei ZouIn addition, we thank the following volunteers for delivering PPE to hospitals: Ms. Jinan Ni, Ms. Xiaomin Shi, Ms. Yunyun Chen, and Ms. Yu Cang.
Photos of the HTAA volunteers
About Us:
The Houston Tsinghua Alumni Association (HTAA) is a non-profit organization run by the Tsinghua University alumni working or studying in the Greater Houston Area. Members of the HTAA are the volunteers behind this effort. As a part of the Greater Houston community, we aim to share the responsibility of supporting our healthcare professionals and ending the COVID-19 pandemic.
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