Compassionate Scholars

In April of 2020, Compassionate Scholars hosted a PPE equipment fundraiser to aid healthcare professionals at the frontlines amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As PPE supplies were running exponentially low for healthcare workers, we decided to come together and reach out to the community and gather PPE supplies to donate to our local hospitals in order to keep our healthcare workers safe. It was an emotionally stressful time for people all around the country, and we hoped that our donations would help the healthcare workers feel safe. It took great effort to purchase masks, but in the end, under the supervision of Compassionate Scholars Director Aileen Cheung, we were able to donate to six hospitals:

Garfield Hospital NICU

Garfield Hospital ER 

Keck USC Float Pool ICU 

Greater El Monte Community Hospital Medical Surgical Telemetry Unit

Dockweiler Beach Isolation Unit Los Angeles County Department of Health Services

Kaiser Permanente

TOTAL DONATIONS (split into five boxes):

• 4500 face masks (100 cases, 50pc/case)
• 3300 gloves (33 cases, 100pc/case)
• 2 bottles disinfecting wipes
  • Straight donations:
    • Cassidy Li – 500 masks (10 cases), 1000 gloves (10 cases)
    • Elroy Han – 500 masks (10 cases), 2 bottles disinfecting wipes
    • Kelly Gao, Bohong Inc. – 2000 masks (50 cases)
    • Emily Zhuo – 500 masks (10 cases), 1500 gloves (15 cases)
  • Total fundraise: selling cases of face masks 
    • Sold: 87 cases masks fundraised $ 508
      •  $460 purchased 1000 masks (20 cases) to donate
      • $48 purchased 800 gloves (8 cases) to donate

We would like to thank (in randomized order): 

• Ms. Aileen Cheung (Compassionate Scholars Director)
• Ms. Kelly Gao, Bohong Inc.
• Mr. Elroy Han
• Ms. Winnie Chan
• Miss Cassidy Li
• Ms. Helen Zheng
• Mr.  Ellis He
• Ms. Wing Li
• Ms. Nicole Kuang
• Mr. Tony Chu (Senior Warden) & Saint Gabriel Episcopal Church
• Mr. Samson Kong
• Ms. Leticia Lopez 
• Ms.  Iris Zh
• Ms. Katy Yuan
• Ms. Tao Yang
• Ms. Catherine Cheung
• Mr.  Kit Wong
• Mr.  Koh Liau
• Mr.  Wai Kwong Li
• Ms. Peggie Thai
• Ms. Ling Juan Luo
• Ms. Yu Liang
• Ms. Anna Deng
• Ms. Olivia

Thank you for donations, and your heartfelt donations are sincerely appreciated by everyone at Compassionate Scholars as well as Healthcare professionals at the front line of this pandemic. A special thanks to Ms. Aileen Cheung, Compassionate Scholars Director, for delivering the boxes of donations in spite of the risks of being outside, to Ms. Helen Zheng and Ms. Nicole Kuang for helping us contact and purchase those PPE, and lastly to Miss Cassidy Li for creating artworks to thank the healthcare professionals.

Detailed List of fundraiser

• Adult Masks 
  • 62 cases of $30 —> $434 profit
  • 8 cases of $28 —> $40 profit
• Children masks
  • 17 cases of $30 —>$34 profit

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Total: $ 508 profit

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Compassionate Scholars

Donations

Lending a Hand to susceptible people

 

In May 2020, an active member of Compassionate Scholar student committee, Ethan Mo, led the Covid Lend a Hand Mask Donation project to aid the groups that were most prone to the virus and were not receiving as much relief materials during this global pandemic. As African Americans, Hispanics, elderly citizens and the homeless were the four groups most prone to contraction, his donations were centered around the Monterey Park area and downtown, which contained a large population of those vulnerable groups. It truly was humbling to be able to receive supporters to this project; however, under the guidance of Compassionate Scholar Director Aileen Cheung, he is able to gather donations and donate to six centers:

 

Garfield Medical Center

Hollywood Food Coalition

Homeless Health Care Los Angeles

Union Station Pasadena

Golden Age Village

Optimist Youth Homes & Family Services

 

TOTAL DONATIONS:

❖      5000 medical masks (10 cases, 500pc/case)

❖      60 hand sanitizers (6 cases, 10 sanitizers pc/case)

 

We would like to thank (in randomized order):

-          Ms. Aileen Cheung (Compassionate Scholars Director)

-          Ethan Mo (Compassionate Scholar; founder of this project)

-          Top Screen and Besa

-          Mr. John Zhuo (Garfield Medical Center)

-          Mr. Joe Rienzi (Hollywood Food Coalition)

-          Ms. Sherry Bonanno (Hollywood Food Coalition)

-          Ms. Stephany Campos (Homeless Health Care Los Angeles)

-          Mr. David Sensente (Union Station Pasadena)

-          Ms. Coco (Golden Age Village)

-          Ms. Annie Nuttall (Optimist Youth Homes & Family Services)

 

Thank you, those workers of the six centers, for confirming and receiving the donations.

A special thanks to Ethan Mo who organized this Mask Donation project; this project would not exist without him. Thanks to Top Screen and Besa for your generous donations of 5000 medical masks and 60 hand sanitizers; your donations are sincerely appreciated by the vulnerable groups who received the materials. Thanks to Aileen for supporting the project. 

 

  

Detailed list of donations:

➢      Medical masks

○       10 cases of 500 masks ---> 50 cents per mask

➢      Hand sanitizers

○       6 cases of 10 sanitizers --->$3.00 per bottle

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                                                Total: $ 2680 donations