Teachers, counselors, food delivery: coronavirus crisis fuels army of volunteers
With many unable to leave their homes in the crisis, community members are filling in where government can’t
With an N-95 mask on and fully sanitized hands, Denise Alexander walked up to a grey house in Kirkland, Washington, and dropped off four bags filled with everything from eggs and canned chicken to toilet paper and a bottle of all-purpose cleaner.
Inside was a mother and her seven-year-old daughter who had just been diagnosed with coronavirus. Alexander said they had already been struggling, ever since local schools were closed and the woman’s daughter could no longer access the free meals provided there. But after their diagnosis and spending time in hospital, they were both in home quarantine and in need of more urgent help.
Alexander, 36, from Seattle, left the supplies at the front door – enough
