Ideas to Help Covid-19 Patients & Families

Search our ideas on how to help Covid-19 patients and their families.

Cheer for healthcare workers and others tonight at 7 PM.

Join people around the world thanking healthcare workers and others on the front lines by leaning out your window or going outside tonight at 7 PM and clapping, cheering, ringing a bell, etc. for 20 seconds to show your support for health care workers and all those on the front lines fighting and most effected by the virus.

Click here for our HOW TO GUIDE for OPERATION FRONT PORCH.

 

Call or Facetime friends who are alone and isolated.

If you know anyone who is living alone, please call them frequently.

Click here or a recent article from GovExec.com magazine on the importance of staying connected during the virus and actions we can all take to reduce the affects of isolation.

Click here for an article on how to use Facetime to video chat with friends on your iphone or ipad.

Smile at every stranger you see; draw a smile on your face mask!

We just realized that even though everyone should be wearing a mask, you can still see people smiling through their eyes! Smiling at a stranger and saying a muffled hello might be the best thing that happens to them all day!

 

Click here for more pictures of “Awesome Face Masks”

Donate blood to my local blood bank

There is a severe shortage of blood across the country. If you are able, please donate blood at your local blood bank, it only takes a few minutes and it can save a life.  The phlebotomist and staff at Blood Donation Centers are all wonderful people, highly skilled at what they do and will make sure you are 100% safe during your donation!

Click here to find your closest American Red Cross Blood Donation location.

Find a local healthcare facility or nursing home that needs PPE and donate any you have, can afford to buy or make

Many healthcare facilities are in need of PPE for their workers. Please donate any masks, gloves and other items you have or are able to purchase and donate to a local facility.

Click here to find a healthcare provider or nursing home near you that needs masks, gloves and other PPE.

Click here for our HOW TO GUIDE Protecting the Front Lines by Donating PPE.

Ask my kid to draw a rainbow and put it in my front window

Ask your kids to draw a rainbow and put it in your front window or give one to someone on the front lines.

Click here to visit Kids For Peace Global for other ideas about how kids can help during Covid-19.

 

Make a Wall of Covid-19 Heros on my fence or garage door to thank all those I know on the front lines (few minutes; <$1)

Make a Wall of Covid-19 Heros on you fence or garage door to thank all those you know on the front lines (few minutes; <$1)