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Iʼve raised £13,236 to fund the manufacture of 3D-printed face visor shields for the NHS and other key workers, in their extraordinary fight against Covid-19.
- Yorkshire, Lancashire
- Funded on Tuesday, 4th August 2020
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In the fight against Covid-19, the NHS and other key workers are struggling to secure the necessary PPE to protect themselves whilst saving the lives of our loved ones. Our doctors, nurses, care home workers, pharmacists and other key workers are all putting their lives at risk, every day, to help us. We are in the fortunate position of being able to help.
A small group of dedicated engineers have 3D printers as part of home hobbies. These have the capability to produce face visor shields, to protect those on the front line. There is a clear shortage and the demands on this small team are rapidly out-stripping the rate at which these can be produced. A new 3D printer can be bought for around 150 GBP-400GBP. A couple of pounds provides enough materials to make a face visor.
Once printed, these face visor shields will be given to the key workers free of charge. Within the first weekend of this project, face visors were shipped to Leeds Hospital, and Pendle Support, to provide support. Within a few days, nearly 2000 masks have been requested.
Now, more than ever, our NHS workers need us. They need you. All donations given will be used to buy the 3D printing filament material, the acetate sheets, and printers to accelerate the supply of these visors to the people who need them.
For further details, please see the Q and As below:-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K4KTzLWH5-60CJlUum4-Jsv7a2j_TeF4/view?usp=sharing
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- 5 years ago
Gemma Dixon
5 years agoWe set up this project to support the NHS and key workers by manufacturing emergency PPE. It was funded by kind donations (thank you!) with all visors donated and delivered free. Today, huge amounts of PPE is available via the internet and local stockists, and can be delivered to your door the next day. With this is mind, we have decided to pause for now, monitor forthcoming events and hope that we don't need to start again for a second peak. Thank you to everyone who has donated, from all of the team. It allowed us to help so many people.
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- 5 years ago
Gemma Dixon
5 years ago6 weeks. 4000 key workers helped. Thanks so much. X
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- 5 years ago
Gemma Dixon
5 years ago5 weeks. 3500 masks made for key workers 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
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385
Sandra Butterworth
May 19, 2020
Thanks Gemma xx
£50.00
Anonymous
May 18, 2020
£20.00
Rob Livingstone
May 15, 2020
Thank you from all at Silentnight.
Sarah C
May 14, 2020
Gemma and the team, this is great.
£30.00
Jay Walker
May 13, 2020
Thank you for everything you’re doing!
£20.00
Angie P
May 12, 2020
£10.00
Stephen Smith
May 11, 2020
Carry on the good work, hope this helps a little.
£20.00
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