Save Your Saviors

My name is Rishabh Saxena, I am a  high school student from Bellarmine College Prep High School, living in Fremont, California.

 

My mother is one of many health care workers fighting for us. She and many HCW are soldiers on the front lines fighting a war against the terrifying new enemy "Covid-19” that is exponentially growing. They need ammunition, weapons, and armor to win this fight.

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I decided to start a campaign  "Save Your Saviors".  My goal was to initially raise donations to buy personal protective equipment  (PPE) for those in the community putting their lives on the line to save others.  I started a Gofundme campaign to raise money for this project.

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CDC recommendations suggest guidelines for protection but there was a big shortage of supplies of basic PPE. initially, a 10% to 1% infection rate drop in Health Care Workers in China and Korea was able to be achieved only after proper personal protective equipment was used.

 

 After researching how the risks faced by frontline workers could be mitigated, I found out that, in addition to other Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), reusable and washable bio-suits helped keep the infection rate low among the healthcare workers in South Korea. 

 

 My research indicated that these bio-suits were already used in a few emergency rooms in hospitals across the United States but were not readily available. I contacted several suppliers and was able to line up reliable vendors for ordering reusable bio-suits and other PPE to protect our Health Care Workers.

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Shivina Chugh, a Mission San Jose High School student believed in my cause and her mother a physician too had been working as a front-line worker involved in this fight. Shivina had been passionate about contributing to this cause and decided to join the team of Save your Saviors to spread awareness in the community and raising funds.

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We ran the idea of sourcing the bio-suits an Intensive Care Unit director and a member of infection control personnel who saw great value in our idea. Not only was this idea well-received by the hospitals we started getting more referrals.  We were able to supply some of the local hospitals with PPE from the donations raised from the community.

Fremont Bridge Rotary Club played a huge role in spreading awareness about our campaign and help us raise significant contributions from the community to fund this project.

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 "Save your Saviors" means a lot to us as a high school student. As we believe that we can empower our frontline workers and segments of society who need our help in these difficult times. The generous donation and community support can truly save the lives of our frontline workers and help us prevail over this adversity.

 

Thank you for your consideration to support our local frontline Health Care Workers!! Click 'Save your Saviors' to donate. 

 

 

Updates Save your Saviors Team May 20, 2020

 

As the situation continues to progress we are in the middle of a Pandemic, 3 months passed every industry is struggling. People who were already in low socioeconomic status have worse outcomes first from the COVID infections additionally they are facing unemployment and homelessness. 

 

Our team has started to focus on gathering community support to help line up food and personal use items from the community drive raising money and supplies for homeless shelters and Domestic violence survivors. We continue to help Healthcare Workers and additionally some other segment of society that is suffering the most.

 

We urge you all to put in your efforts as a community to help these drives to support take ‘Save your Saviors’ message all across the Bay area to the people who need the most help during this COVID Pandemic.

 

Save your Saviors Team 

Rishabh Saxena and Shivina Chugh