Our team hit a BIG milestone: we’ve donated over 5,000 face shields to frontline workers and healthcare workers in need! Since the conception of the Ontario PPE Collective in early April, our team has been working hard to protect the healthcare workers battling COVID-19. These healthcare workers have been working tirelessly to keep our communities […]
Run or Walk to Donate PPE to Ontario Front Line Healthcare Workers
Exciting news! The Ontario PPE Collective has donated over 2,700 face shields! We’ve been able to deliver these shields to hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities across the GTA. The workers in these facilities have been bravely fighting on the frontlines of COVID-19, and we could not sustain the support we are providing to them […]
Help Us Continue to Donate PPE to Ontario Front Line Healthcare Workers
Our team has hit some big milestones recently – we are nearly at 2,500 donated face shields, and our team has grown to over 90 volunteers! We are now several weeks into this project. It has involved a lot of learning, a lot of collaboration, and a fair share of late nights working on our […]
Celebrating a Special Milestone With a Very Special Visit
This initiative has always been about community. By the community, for the community. So we were delighted to have an overwhelming show of support from the York Region Paramedics, Mayor John Taylor, MP Tony Van Bynen, and the Newmarket Chamber of Commerce on Friday. They paid a special visit to our Intake & Sanitization Facility […]
Print, Sanitize, Pack, Deliver… and Repeat!
The past few days have been really exciting for the Ontario PPE Collective team. We’ve visited quite a few facilities to donate more shields, and we’ve received some amazing feedback from the units we have delivered to. Getting positive feedback from health care workers is really critical to us. Hearing their experiences helps us optimize […]
750 Shields… and Counting!
It’s been less than a month since we made our first delivery — 10 face shields to a COVID-19 unit in Mississauga. Since then, we’ve been able to print and deliver over 750 more face shields to health care workers across the Greater Toronto Area! This past Friday, 200 face shields were sanitized, assembled, packaged, […]
Makerspace Manufacturing: Working with NewMakeIt
We’ve been delivering more and more boxes — as of today, we’ve delivered over 650 shields to health care workers in the GTA! We’re excited to tell you more about these deliveries, but for the time being, we want to shine a light on one of our wonderful partners, NewMakeIt. With the call to action […]
A Peek at our Production Facility at STEM Minds
With requests for over 6000 face shields, we’ve been busy printing away. Our volunteers are printing face shields around the clock, with our support team coordinating sanitization procedures and deliveries. Our team, which has now grown to a group of over 35 community partners and volunteers, actually started as a joint initiative between Art in […]
Teaming Up With Pharm Against COVID-19
During these difficult times, we are all in need of a little inspiration. There’s a lot of it to be found in our brave essential services workers and our healthcare heroes. Our team has also been greatly inspired by seeing the amazing initiatives sprouting in our community. From neighborhood groups that help deliver groceries and […]
300 Face Shields to Lakeridge COVID-19 Unit
Things have been busy at the Ontario PPE Collective, to say the least! The requests keep coming in, as does the gracious support of our community and volunteers. Yesterday, we delivered 300 face shields to the COVID-19 unit at Lakeridge Hospital in Oshawa. Their staff were in desperate need of PPE — currently, Lakeridge has […]