Pinheiro Secondary School in Rosa will stop produce protective visors for health professionals after "the mission has been accomplished".
Altogether, this school produced more than 3000 visors, which were donated to hospitals, health centers, security forces, homes, prisons, municipal services and to other «professionals with great labor exposure».
In a note sent to the newsrooms, Francisco Soares, director of the Pinheiro e Rosa Schools Group, explains that "at this moment there is no shortage of these equipment in the front line of this fight and the market has reacted, with visors already on sale at fair prices".
Therefore, «the work of volunteers is no longer justified» and «we will close the production of visors in our group, on the 15th of May».
Francisco Soares thanks "all those who made this mega humanitarian operation possible", such as the Municipality of Faro, Associação Solidariedade Ossónoba, Globaltonner, Papelaria Sagres, Linhas Direitas, Casa Verde, Fikemp, Japmar, Colégio Internacional de Vilamoura, Cortelha Cargo Trucking Union, VerArte, Ideias Frescas, CCVAlg, Turbine Kreuzberg, Publirádio and «tens from individuals who, with their donations and their work, gave substance to this expression of solidarity».
The group's director recalls that, at the beginning of the pandemic, “the process of production, cleaning, packaging and distribution of the visors, which, in the meantime, were being produced, was quickly organized. We were joined by other makers from the Algarve producing visors in 3D printers and working 24 hours a day. The volume of production rose considerably, thanks to the generosity of so many anonymous people who, in their homes, throughout the night, were unraveling the filament that gave shape to one visor after another».
“In this process, everyone put their abilities, skills, services, raw materials at the service of the collective and, in some cases, they acquired what they needed”, concludes Francisco Soares.
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