Chinese Federation Donates Thousands of Face Mask to Frontline Workers

Wallace Zhu

More than six thousand surgical masks were also donated today to the Belize Police Department and the Ministry of Health. The donation comes courtesy from the All China Federation of Overseas Taishanese, an organization formed three years ago. The Federation has been very active recently, helping communities across the country with food supplies and government bodies with equipment to help with the COVID-19 response. Secretary of the Federation, Wallace Zhu told News Five that the donation is part of their commitment to the Belizean community.

Wallace Zhu, Secretary, All China Federation of Overseas Taishanese

“Today we donating six thousand medical face masks to the police department and Ministry of Health because they are the frontline workers and they are exposing themselves and protecting the country and protecting the citizens. So we are just here doing something that can help the frontline workers. We are here donating some face mask to out frontline workers. As you can see on Facebook our district branches example Belmopan, Cayo and Corozal and PG, we have out district branches trying to do some collections of donations and give it out to the people and families that are impacted by COVID-19. We live in this country so we are part of this country so we are one family. We are just giving a helping one to each other. This is just our first step. Further on we will still try to collect come donations from our members and more foods, and grocery supplies and then we will still have some packages and give it out to some people who are in need of it.”

Melinda Guerra

Melinda Guerra, Health Manager, Central Health Regional

“Now that the new normal is that we have to be wearing face masks in all our facilities including our public health inspectors who go out in the community these face masks come in very handy. We are going to make much use of it. We do have face masks because it is provided by the Ministry of Health but it is never enough. So at the Central Region we have close to two hundred health workers who need masks on a daily basis.”