Dear community members,
Nepali American Community Center (NACC) wishes you great health and safety as we all are dealing with the unprecedented crisis COVID-19 has caused. We hope you and your loved ones are strong enough coping with the crisis that has hit us all in many ways and forms. This weekly update from NACC gives you the information about the initiatives NACC has taken to help relieve the pain our community members are going through along with some important links and resources as reference items.
First of all, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to nurses, with the following message:
Happy Nurses Week 2020
To
All the nurses – the frontline warriors of this battle against COVID -19 !!
We have faith in you. We will win #WarAgainstCovid-19 with your dedication, selflessness, compassion, professionalism, invincible attitude and firm commitment to serve the community in these times of dire need. Your compassion, courage, empathy, confidence and caring heart makes you
a beautiful human being – A NURSE!
Thank you for all you do!!
Updates:
Our volunteers have received a number of calls in all categories that includes but not limited to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), filing unemployment insurance (UI) claims, Mortgage Forbearance related information etc.
Process for Medical/Psychological Calls (We keep your information confidential):
Nature of our calls thus far:
List of medical professionals onboard with us to help in this initiative:
Medical:
Psychiatrists:
Registered Nurses and Nurse Practitioners
(Training April 18, 2020)
Admin: Sunita Subedi
Process of handling Socioeconomic calls:
We follow the similar approach to the calls received on Socioeconomic helpdesk as well. Our volunteers will answer the questions or direct the call to our second-tier help consisting of subject matter experts.
List of volunteers answering socioeconomic help desks are:
We have delivered a number of highly impactful educational programs for the community and all were watched by a very high number of audiences on facebook live.
Stress Relief Programs:
In order to meet the psychological and emotional needs, we continue to deliver a variety of stress relief programs in the community and members are taking full benefit while being cooped up in the house.
(Contact Dr. Kalpana Satyal for additional information on these stress relief programs)
In addition to our own effort in providing relief to our community members, NACC has partnered with 27 other organizations to build a network for outreach and to leverage resources. These include NACC Founding Institutional members and others. NACC hosted 3 meetings with these nonprofit organizations and finalized Terms of Reference (TOR). Details of TOR is accessible here
(If you would like to join COVID-19 Emergency Management Partnering Team, please send email to [email protected] )
We have purchased medical supplies for over $1800 and here is the list of our inventories.
Surgical masks- 1000
KN 95 masks – 100
Tylenol – 60 boxes
Thermometer – 25
Pulse Oximeter 3
Gloves – 300
Established the network of volunteers with the leadership of Mr. Dadi Dhungana, Chandra Lama and Prem Poudel to manage supplies and to distribute supplies to needed individuals and families in the DC Metro area.
NACC joint executive committee and board of trustee formed a Property Design, Permitting and Construction (DPC) team comprises of 7 members (5 of them are engineers). Team has already started authorized work and rewarded a contract to a company for Phase I of the project after rigorous due diligence. We will send you a separate email with the progress report in a few days.
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