FASHION GIRLS FOR HUMANITY Newsletter #6: Gowns For Good - 2nd Donation Delivery!

FASHION GIRLS FOR HUMANITY Newsletter #6: Gowns For Good - 2nd Donation Delivery!

FASHION GIRLS FOR HUMANITY Newsletter #6:
Gowns For Good - 2nd Donation Delivery!



Dear Friends,

Thank you for your continued support of our Gowns For Good Made In Americainitiative.  We have donated another 1,000 disposable isolation gowns produced by the NYC Manufacturer's Coalition last week to facilities testing and treating active Covid-19 cases.  The donations went to Housing Works in New York, Syl-View Nursing Facility in Georgia, Willowbend Nursing and Rehabilitation in Texas, Tuba City Regional Health Care in Arizona and Clinica Romero in California.

As we are seeing an increase of Covid-19 cases nationwide in the past weeks, the urgent need for PPE for many Frontline healthcare workers is dire.  We hope you will be able to continue to support our mission to produce and donate PPE to those in need.  Please visit our website to donate and help get the word out by sharing what we do.

Our website continues to be updated with new resources for those who are trying to create PPE for people in need in their communities.  See below some of the new resources available.

With Gratitude,

Julie Gilhart, Kikka Hanazawa, Miki Higasa, and Tomoko Ogura
FASHION GIRLS FOR HUMANITY

 
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Made By Us PPE Gown Kits Now Available On Our Site!

The Humans From Home Made By Us personal protective equipment isolation gown kit comes with all necessary components for you to be able to sew your own isolation gowns for yourself or your community in need. The kit comes with detailed instructions to make the gowns and all of the pre-cut gown panels, YKK hook and loop for closures, and belt trim for the assembly of 5 isolation gowns.  We now offer a kit of 5 gowns for $20.00 or 25 gowns for $70.00.  For more details please visit our website.
Want to Volunteer to Sew PPE Gowns?

With the increase of Covid-19 cases in the US, we are trying to match volunteers that are able to help sew disposable gowns for medical facilities in need.

Pictured here is Mary McRae in Montana who was able to sew gowns that are being delivered to Family Medicine Residency in Idaho, a non-profit clinic serving low-income residents.

If you would like to volunteer, pleasesign up here.  For the first 10 people to sign up this week, FGFH will send out a free Made By Us 5 gown kit so you can get started to help those in need.
GET PPE

Get PPE’s mission is to connect the PPE requests from those in need with the helpers who have the equipment, skills, and materials to offset that gap.

For those in dire need of PPE please put in a request here so volunteers can be matched to your facility.
Disposable Gown Fabric Supplier

Based on the commonly used Hayard Tri-Layer AAMI2 Isolation Gown reverse-engineered by Fashion Girls for Humanity, "Made By Us" precut materials are made from 72 gsm Barricade R Wrap supplied by Indevco Northamerica and Specialty Coating, which is both breathable and waterproof. The material meets the AAMI Level 1 & 2 standards.  If you would like more information on fabric suppliers for PPE production, please visit the supplier list on our website.
Washable Reusable Gown Instructions - Now with Spanish Translation

We have received many requests from our website visitors to have the isolation gown pattern and instructions in other languages and we have just introduced our Spanish gown pattern which you can download for free here.
Washable Reusable Gown Instruction Video Using Bed Sheets

We now have a new video tutorial for making washable reusable isolation gowns from bed sheets using our FGFH gown pattern.