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A group of parents of international undergraduate and graduate students, as well as parents of Carolina alumni, are donating nearly 100,000 masks to support North Carolina’s health care workers.


A group of parents of international undergraduate and graduate students, as well as parents of Carolina alumni, are donating nearly 100,000 masks to support North Carolina’s health care workers.

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With health care workers on the frontlines of COVID-19 facing a shortage of personal protection equipment, a group of Carolina’s international students and their parents are working together to donate thousands of masks to UNC Hospitals.

As the novel coronavirus began to spread throughout the United States, some international students’ parents living in China wanted to find a way to help their children, who were so far away in Chapel Hill.

“As students, we couldn’t go back to China because a lot of airlines reduced their flights, and a lot of our parents were very worried about us,” said Summer Guo, a second-year student at the UNC School of Law.

Knowing that there was a shortage of PPE throughout the country, Guo’s mother and other parents of Carolina students decided to organize a donation of masks that could support the UNC Hospitals staff.

Read the full story by Korie Dean in University Communications here.