Most ninth-grade girls worry about schoolwork, friends and personal life. Lately, however,Valerie Xu has focused on face masks. The 15-year old from Addison Texas, says she wanted to do something about the lack of protective equipment for medical workers during the coronavirus pandemic(冠状病毒大流行), So with wisdom and a teenager's good wish, Xu raised donations,bought more than 10,000 protective masks and delivered them to a Dallas medical center. And she's gathering more.
The idea of donation started with a conversation that Xu had with a family friend,a Florida ER doctor who was forced to wear the same protective mask for several days. "This really amazed me in America," Xu said. "We're supposed to be considered the richest country in th6 world, yet doctors and nurses fighting on the front line cannot get proper protection."
Since Xu Wanted to make a local influence, she started a GoFundMe online to buy masks for the UT Southwestem Medical Center, the largest hospital near her home. It has raised more than ＄3,800 Xu researched vendors in China and picked two suppliers, donating $1,200 of her own money to the cause. She said her activity so far has collected a total of 11,200 masks. Xu has received grateful messages from medical workers and others.
"If there is one thing that I have learned from this experience, it is that people care and are willing to help our community, which is the truth of our American spirit," she said.
①She donated her pocket money.
②She stared an activity on the Internet.
③She made a research on the mask sellers.
④She sent text message to local medical workers.
