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Grace Farms Foundation Distributes More Equipment to Fight COVID-19 in CT, Looks for Donations

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Grace Farms Alliance Against COVID-19 has distributed more than 150,000 N95 respirator masks — 30,000 more than announced on April 2 — and is poised to deliver an additional 150,000 to the front lines, including Connecticut hospitals, COVID-19 clinics and testing sites, first responders and skilled nursing facilities in local towns this week. — an announcement from Grace Farms Foundation

An additional 50,000 pieces of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), including surgical and disposable masks, coveralls, and goggles have also been delivered and are currently in use statewide. Despite the Alliance’s efficient supply chain infrastructure and large deliveries, significantly more PPE is required to fill the gap to protect front-line healthcare workers. HOW YOU CAN HELP

Grace Farms Foundation is actively seeking additional philanthropic support to ensure the Relief Fund continues to fill the need for PPE throughout the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Anyone interested in supporting the Fund and learning about Grace Farms Foundation’s efforts can donating online by going to this Web page on the Grace Farms Foundation website.

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Grace Farms Foundation Organizes Effort to Get and Distribute PPE, Relief During COVID-19 Crisis

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A total of 120,000 respirator masks, a third of them N95 masks, have been delivered or are on the way to hospitals and first responders through two funds set up by Grace Farms Foundation and aided by other philanthropic partners, the foundation announced on Thursday. In addition, the Grace Farms has procured and already delivered more than 32,000 surgical masks and 4,000 isolation coveralls to 13 area hospitals, COVID-19 clinics, and the first responders in 14 local towns, the foundation said. Here in the southwest quarter of Connecticut, where the COVID-19 epidemic is now more intense than elsewhere in the state, the foundation has provided additional help. The announcement said:

“Hundreds of thousands of additional respirator masks, gowns/coveralls and face shields are expected to arrive within days, and will be distributed again by New Canaan Fire Department volunteers to local first responders in Fairfield County and healthcare workers at Community Health Centers, Stamford Health [Stamford Hospital], Norwalk Hospital, Danbury Hospital, and St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, and Yale New Haven Health, which serves six hospitals.”

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Grace Farms Organizes Training Workshop in Africa to Combat Wildlife Trafficking

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Grace Farms Foundation (GFF) in collaboration with the Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF) and Uganda Wildlife Authority convened a three-day multi-agency workshop in Uganda this week, to train local law enforcement to combat wildlife trafficking. — an announcement from Grace Farms Foundation
During the workshop, members of the Tanzania National Anti-poaching Task Force spoke about Tanzania’s success story in combating poaching and wildlife trafficking and shared valuable lessons with the newly created National Task Force on wildlife crime in Uganda. Participants included 30 key representatives and law enforcement officers from the National Task Force on Wildlife Crime in Uganda; LATF; Robert Mande, chairman of the National Anti-poaching Task Force of the United Republic of Tanzania; and GFF. The workshop is the latest in a series convened by GFF locally and globally to provide expert training to officials with the goal of dismantling transnational organized crime syndicates and combat poaching and illegal trade in wildlife. Multi-agency training sessions in 2019 and 2020 have engaged a number of member countries of the African Union, including Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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Grace Farms Teams Up With Feds to Train Police Here and Abroad on Fighting Forced Labor

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Grace Farms Foundation and the U.S. government want to reduce, if not eliminate, forced labor around the world, a modern form of slavery that the foundation has made one of its goals. To that end, on Thursday officials from the foundation and federal customs and immigration agency signed an agreement to form a partnership meant to help law enforcement develop new approaches to combat forced labor. — an announcement from Grace Farms Foundation

Officials from New Canaan-based Grace Farms and the Global Trade Investigations Division of Homeland Security Investigations signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to work together. HSI is a division of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, also known as ICE. The two organizations are partnering to convene law enforcement personnel for capacity building opportunities and training sessions starting this year at Grace Farms.

The goal of the collaboration is to bring experts in forced labor to work with law enforcement and sharing data, knowledge, and research to improve transparency and access to justice for victims of modern slavery.