The Woodburn Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution is responding to help health-care and essential workers on the front lines of the pandemic, ensuring that Morgantown and Kingwood area residents and facilities have more homemade masks to face the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. Members are busy sewing masks to donate throughout the community.
As of April 16, Woodburn members had sewn and donated over 500 masks. They are continuing to sew to meet the needs of the community.
Woodburn Chapter Regent Cynthia Harper is an essential worker and as such is able to deliver the masks.
“Several of us are doing our part to slow the spread of the virus by staying at home, but at the same time, we wanted to give back to those working hard to keep our community healthy and safe” said one member.
Nationwide, DAR chapters from all 50 states have participated in the organization’s “Service to America From Home” initiative with more than 160,000 masks already donated and tens of thousands more produced every day to be distributed in local communities.
“I am exceptionally proud of what DAR members are accomplishing as part of a proud tradition of service that dates to our 1890 founding,” said Denise Doring VanBuren, DAR president general. “In difficult times like these, we know that it is not the emergency that defines us, but how we respond to it.”
For more information on Woodburn Chapter visit www.facebook.com/Woodburn Chapter/ or send an email to: WoodburnChapter@gmail.com.
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