COVID-19

Reaching the Children

The Kind Mouse continues to serve our community through the COVID pandemic. We must continue to reach and feed the food insecure children of Pinellas County. The Kind Mouse continues to work with our existing agencies and partners but we are going deeper into our community.

Your tax deductible donations are extremely appreciated and most needed during these uncertain times. We ask that if your career has not been affected by this, that possibly you will be able to help us feed one child for a week. $50 is what it will take. This will go a long way to help The Kind Mouse fill as many tummies as possible.

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The Kind Mouse has been busy during this pandemic.

Due to COVID-19, we have been feeding more and more hungry children. We contacted all our agency partners and learned their plans. Then we provided each partner with 2 to 4 weeks’ worth of food – either delivered to them, or they picked up. The Kind Mouse intends to do the same for the duration of this pandemic.

We drove to Mattie Williams Neighborhood Center in Safety Harbor with JWB Board Member Mike Mikurak and delivered 1,406 pounds of food for them to hand out via 2 drive by food pickups for 4 zip codes. We will continue to serve Mattie Williams Neighborhood Center throughout this pandemic.

We have arranged for community affairs personnel to carry our Mouse Nibbles bags in their cars to deliver directly to the food insecure children of our area. We have provided them with 2,000 Mouse Nibbles sacks to deliver to the children for us. Each sack contains 3 meals.

We are working with the Sheriff’s Department and have provided them with 300 Mouse Nibbles sacks to hand out as they encounter hungry children. We will replenish them as soon as they are in need.

We are working with the Pinellas Park Police for them to possibly do the same.

We spoke with the Clearwater Police to see if they would be interested in having our Mouse Nibbles sacks for the hungry children they encounter. They are so thrilled they are proposing to make this countywide. Chief Slaughter is introducing us to communities that are most affected by this pandemic.

We had the pantry thoroughly bleached down and wiped down. We have hand sanitizer generously donated to us by Kozuba and Sons distillery and ask all volunteers to wear gloves.

We have updated our volunteer requirements and procedures in order to best protect our volunteers during this pandemic. Please review the requirements for Pantry Work below.

We WILL feed more children as the need grows.

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Thank you so much for your support. Please Donate today!

Gina

Requirements for Pantry Work

Masks are optional unless

• You have traveled outside of the State and/or Country in the past 14 days
• You have been exposed to COVID in the past 14 days 
• If you have had COVID in the past 14 days, we ask that you do not come to the pantry until you are negative and are 3 full days fever free.

We ask that you please respect everyone’s wishes – should someone request we wear masks, we ask that you please comply.    

We are continuing to keep our senior citizen volunteers on set schedules with their peers.

Should we be told to wear masks continuously we will follow all rulings.   

We have a refrigerator and microwave for your convenience.

Thank you for your kindness and dedication!