A “SMALL idea” has transformed into a project supplying around 2,500 key workers with visors, as well as raising more than £17,000.
Since Monday, April 6, St Joseph’s Catholic School in Laverstock has been busy creating face shields and reaching out to the community for support, in order to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to anyone who needs it amid the Covid-19 crisis.
The GoFundMe campaign to support the project raised over £4,000 in less than a day.
Within just five days the school had raised £12,000 to help with funding materials and postage, and after the Easter weekend the total stood at more than £17,000, covering the cost of materials to make a further 45,000 visors.
St Joseph’s Secondary School in Salisbury repurposed the machines used to teach students so it could make protective visors for NHS staff.
After sharing the appeal PA included the story in two news wire articles and the story was syndicated in over 554 titles including the Mail Online, Yahoo, AOL and hundreds of regionals. The school smashed their target, received over 4.5k shares and were managed to buy more supplies than they could have ever imagined.
School raises money to make PPE for key workers
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“Jane, you have no idea just how much that means to us. Thank you so much. Today we took on an industrial laser cutter that can output 200 per hour instead of 200 per day, we also took a donation for £2500! Thank you, genuinely, thank you.”
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