Tony Wood, laid off from his job as a customer representative in a logistics company due to the coronavirus pandemic, wondered how he might hospital workers and others in the front line of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
This story by Kevin McGran appeared in The Peterborough Examiner.
The answer was on his driveway in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. His camping trailer.
“I noticed a post on Facebook that they are looking for people who have trailers and not using them, if they’d be willing to donate them”” Wood said. “I jumped at it. Mine was sitting there doing nothing.”
Now his camping trailer is in somebody else’s driveway, a personal-care worker who had been sleeping in her car in Cambray, 54 kilometers west of Peterborough in the City of Kawartha Lakes, for fear of infecting her diabetic boyfriend with a compromised immune system.
Wood connected with Stacey Robinson, co-owner of Great Canadian RV, on Highway 7 just south of Fowlers Corners, with her husband Al, who’d made the Facebook post.
Robinson said she got the idea to use her connections to get RVs to those who need to self-isolate after she got a letter from a doctor near Picton who was asking for one. She didn’t have one that fit his specifications, but another outlet in London – Can-Am RV – did.
Her company – Great Canadian RV – is handling the sanitization of the vehicles.