Our volunteers Katrina and Kelly were interviewed recently by KGNU about our fundraiser for farmworkers:
Personal protective equipment, or PPE – I’m talking masks, gloves, testing equipment – became a more widely-understood term at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, PPE has always been important. For chronically ill or disabled folks, during flu season, for farm workers…
That last group is what we’ll be focusing on this segment. Farm workers are still facing a quickly-spreading outbreak of bird flu, or H5N1, across Colorado and other states. There’s a Denver-based mutual aid group called Covid Safe Colorado (CSC) that says institutions are not properly equipping their workers with PPE. So, they’re taking matters into their own hands, and fundraising to help get masks and other protective gear to those workers.
Kelly Drumwright is an organizer with Covid Safe Colorado (as well as a volunteer for Outsources, our queer show that airs at 6:30 p.m. on Mondays right here on KGNU), and Katrina Martin is a co-founder of the mutual aid group. KGNU’s Jackie Sedley spoke with both of them about their org, their fundraising efforts, and the importance of masking no matter how active the pandemic seems to be.
