Coping with COVID-19 Pandemic: Free homemade mask distribution to frontline service providers and vulnerable groups in Saskatoon

We will work with Saskatoon Open Door Society to extend a face mask fabrication and distribution program currently providing homemade sterilized masks to vulnerable populations (homeless, seniors) and essential service workers (shelter staff/volunteers, early childhood educators, grocery clerks) to protect against COVID-19 infection. Our public health input will increase awareness of COVID-19 by developing a pamphlet containing COVID-19 information that will be distributed with each mask. This extended initiative will produce up to 10,000 face masks to be provided to at risk populations for free while increasing COVID-19 knowledge. We will also evaluate the outcome of the mask/pamphlet distribution program.