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Monrovia Weekly Apr 01, 2020
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The Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation (know best asthe Tzu Chi Foundation) made a generous donation to Monrovia’s firstresponders. Tzu Chi literally means compassionate relief and thefoundation lived up to its name on Tuesday when it donated hundreds of personalbottles of aerial hand sanitizer, masks and gloves to the City of Monrovia.
Jackson Chen, CEO of the foundation, said that the first 200bottles of sanitizers and 2,000 masks were “just the beginning.” Sayingthat they were working with their sources overseas, more of everything wascoming. He also explained that volunteers at each foundation were fillingthe hand sanitizers themselves with the foundation buying all the supplies toput them together.
Monrovia Police Chief Alan Sanvictores accepted on behalf of thecity. “You have no idea how thankful we are,” he said. He said it wasespecially important in these stressful days to stay mobile and stayhealthy. “We will get through this,” he said. “We are a community andare working together.” He concluded, “We are one human race.”
The police and fire departments will share the personal protective equipment with both the Fire Department personnel and the school district. Monrovia School Board President Rob Hammond praised the food services employees who are still working daily to provide meals for Monrovia’s school children.<a href="http://”>http://
