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Statement at the Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic
On the COVID-19 Pandemic Committee meeting held June 16, 2020, Alice Wong made a statement regarding a local Richmond-based charity.
The following is a transcript:
Hon. Alice Wong (Richmond Centre, CPC):
Mr. Chair, it gives me great pleasure to thank a local Richmond-based charity, the Social Diversity for Children Foundation, SDC, for its hard work both in raising funds for the purchase of personal protective equipment and in distributing this PPE to long-term care facilities and individual seniors’ homes in the lower mainland of B.C.
The COVID-19 relief fund is supported by a dozen other non-profits, businesses and community groups. Over the past two months, SDC has been to 32 seniors homes and senior-related organizations. In total, it has delivered masks to 7,000 care workers, staff and seniors. It is amazing to have witnessed how the younger generation have gotten involved in caring for the elderly at this very challenging time.
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