Students Send Masks from China for Spokane

SGS Upper School students who have returned home to China during the pandemic are now sending N95 and surgical masks back to Spokane to help our health care workers!  The school received two boxes with 120 N95 masks and over 100 surgical masks on March 31 from students Thomas Fei (10th grade) and Winnie Wu (11th grade) who both live in Beijing.  Dr. Gerhard Muelheims, a cardiologist and father of three SGS graduates, delivered the boxes of masks the next morning to local hospital administrators at the Heart Institute where he works.  

The gesture wasn’t that surprising given the school’s focus on community service, says Elizabeth Tender, International Student Coordinator.  “It’s pretty cool, our foreign students have really bonded to our community.”  Read the full story in the Spokesman-Review and on KREM.com.  More boxes with hundreds of additional masks, suits, and gloves are on their way to Spokane from other SGS Chinese students living in Liaoning, Jiangsu, and Changchun.  This is their way of helping out their friends and host families in their adopted city of Spokane.  Thank you, Dragons!