by Beth Keating
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DisneyBizJournal.com
April 5, 2020
It’s been said that “Necessity is the mother of invention,” and with hospitals and nursing homes all over the country running out of personal protection equipment (PPE) like face masks and scrub gowns, medical professionals began turning to items such as rain ponchos in desperation.
As any Disney addict knows, you can’t show up at the theme parks without at least one disposable rain poncho in your day pack, so Disney fans across the country began donating their unused rain ware to Montefiore Medical Center in New York at the request of a Disney fan in the community (see the original post at Disney Food Blog here).
Of course, if you’ve been watching the news, you know that New York is the current epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, but hospitals countrywide are rapidly running out of critical supplies to keep first responders and medical professionals protected as they go about the business of protecting us.
Source: DisneyParksBlog.com
Disney Parks has stepped in to help as well. They have donated 150,000 rain ponchos to MedShare, which will in turn distribute the gear to hospitals on the front lines. (The ponchos become stand-ins for unavailable scrubs.) Medshare is a humanitarian aid organization that directly delivers vital medical supplies and equipment to communities in need, matching donors with surplus supplies with facilities in jeopardy. Disney Parks also recently donated more than 100,000 N95 masks to the states of New York, California and Florida. According to the Disney Parks Blog, Disneyland Paris has also donated more than 100,000 medical supplies, including masks, hygiene caps and protective shoes to the French government for distribution to hospitals in France.
Source: DisneyParksBlog.com
Disney has been in motion, assisting the community, since the early days of this pandemic, donating more than 270 tons of unserved food to local food banks as the Disney Parks themselves began shutting down. (See our original story on the donations to Second Harvest here.) Since that time, Disney’s Aulani Resort in Hawaii has also begun donating thousands of pounds of fresh fruits and veggies as well as shelf stable foods to Aloha Harvest.
Beth Keating is a regular contributor to DisneyBizJournal.
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