Sending cards to Life care centers during Covid-19

As Covid-19 started, everyone got nervous. I remember March 6th when my school called my parents in the morning announcing that the school will close for a week. I started thinking – oh well, I get a little break and then I will go back. Soon, everyday at breakfast times, me and parents would talk about changes happening in the world – numbers going up, people getting tested as positive, and events are being cancelled, everything closing down like malls, theatres and even my favorite place, Disney amusement parks.

During that time, I also heard that the elderly population was getting hurt the most. That affected me a lot. What about the elderly population that is all alone in life care centers? Their own kids cannot even meet them! I could not even imagine how scared and lonely they would feel – at least we have our family together!

One of those days, my Girl Scout troop leader sent a message to all my troop asking if we can send some good notes to the Senior Life Care Center in Stoneham. I absolutely fell in love with the idea but then I started thinking – I love Stoneham but elderly people in all towns and states are impacted with this. So, I decided to expand on the idea and do it for all life care centers across the country. I googled for the life care centers and realized that their were about 50 life care centers in 28 states. So, I started thinking on how can I make so many cards with my hands – given my disability, it will take a lot longer. Aha! Here comes my digital design and an opportunity to use Google slide to make cards! I found many different best wishes pictures and put them into a presentation. Now, I needed to just print them and put them into envelopes to mail. But, I was short of stamps at home 🙂 So, I ordered some stamps, waiting for them to come and then mailed 48 letters (each with 8-9 best wishes cards) into 26 states! The responses I got from them made me ecstatic! Some of them were emails, some pictures of the cards posted and some were pictures of Senior Residents and Nurses holding the cards smiling!