COVID-19 Team Update

Last updated: May 30, 2020

Our team’s mission has always been to support cancer patients and their families. For the past five years, we have spent the winter and spring focused on our biggest fundraisers and walk-recruitment events, including the The Evening of Hope and our gigantic annual yard sale. Since these events gather hundreds of people, it was clear to us in early March that we would need to cancel them. We were very disappointed, and we pouted for a few hours. 

Then we realized that our mission is not founded on specific events; it’s founded on helping others. So we got to work. In the last five weeks, Team Tara has coordinated, communicated, and crushed it more than ever before. Over 250 people have been working to provide frontline workers the protection they need to help in the fight against this deadly virus. We have been sewing masks (over 4,600), producing face shields (almost 3,000), and delivering wipes, gloves, scrub caps, and more to nurses, doctors, homeless shelters, law enforcement, physical therapists, hospice workers, cancer patients, and other vulnerable populations. 

We are never without hope, although we realize this is a very difficult time. For cancer patients, the danger is exacerbated and thus, our work becomes even more important. We will not give up our efforts, rather, we will make adjustments as necessary. We hope that personal protective equipment soon floods into our hospitals and into other places that support vulnerable populations. Until then, we will continue our efforts to get PPE to frontline workers. They are saving lives and we will do all we can to support them. 

If you have questions, please contact us at TeamTaraHopes@gmail.com