Facebook Group Is Pairing Up Healthcare Workers With RVs So They Can Self-isolate Near Home
Healthcare workers are making incredible sacrifices as they serve on the frontlines of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. When they come home from work, they must go to great lengths to ensure that they do not expose their family to the germs they may have picked up during their
Posted — UpdatedHealthcare workers are making incredible sacrifices as they serve on the frontlines of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. When they come home from work, they must go to great lengths to ensure that they do not expose their family to the germs they may have picked up during their shift.
The group now has more than 27,000 members.
She and Haggard then decided to help others in the same situation. Here she is, telling her story on the Facebook page.
“We have matched over 600 families manually without any platform whatsoever. We have thousands of volunteers working 24/7 around the clock not getting paid a dime,” Phillips says in the video. “The family we’ve created in the volunteer organization is just as powerful as the receivers getting their RVs and the owners getting to donate the RVs. We have people all over the country giving their homes to healthcare professionals and first responders, not asking for a dime in return.”
She noted that, as word gets out about the page’s actions, the news is giving people encouragement during the health crisis, too.
“The anxiety and depression that some people feel has been lifted by watching the miraculous stories of how these people are being matched and the friendships that are being made,” Phillips said.
Patrick Alger of Fredericksburg, Va. might agree. He used the group to loan his 2012 Fun Finder X to Scott Clark, a paramedic from Chester, Virginia.
Clark, whose son Eli lives with multiple medical conditions which leave him particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, was overwhelmed by Alger’s contribution.
“It is a lifesaver to have that knowledge and peace of mind that I can go to work not so much worried about myself as I am about my family this and little man here because he is my life,” he told the news outlet.
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