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Face Shields for Heroes

We provide free face shields to our local medical heroes.

Leader

Charles Smith

Location

176 W Marshall Ferndale, MI 48220

About the project

We hope to raise $8000, which will fund producing and delivering 2000 face shields to our local medical heroes.

We have been making shields for about 2 weeks, and the demand is GREATLY outstripping the initial batch of materials we bought.

The Steps

  I own a marine canvas shop, have accounts with some of the biggest suppliers in the country, and have a large CNC cutting machine. I repurposed my shop and machines to make face shields.  As of now, we have provided more than 1000 to area care facilities.  Free.

We are up and running, making and delivering about 200 shields/day and we running out of funds.  We can increase production significanlty if we order bigger quantities of materials.

 

Why we‘re doing it

I have friends and family who work in the emergency rooms, hospitals, and other care facilities of the area.  Their stories are grim and scary, especially the fact that they very quickly went through the stock of available PPE.  I have the ability to supply face shields quickly and economically, so I changed my shop and repurposed my machines to make shields.  We are crowdfunding this so we can respond QUICKLY.

I asked a friend to drop off some to a large, local hospital.  The person who received the sheilds could not hold back tears of gratitude.  My friend is now working with us.  We are up to a crew of 4 people, working in 3 different places.

$8,339.00 / $8,339.00