{"id":1533,"date":"2020-03-17T08:27:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T12:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.valluvantamil.org\/?page_id=1533"},"modified":"2020-03-17T23:23:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T03:23:18","slug":"e911","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.valluvantamil.org\/index.php\/e911\/","title":{"rendered":"VTA : e911 service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Valluvan Tamil Volunteers are organizing an emergency response team to help with those who are in need during this critical time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>What you do in case of an emergency?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><div style=\"font-size: xx-large; color:red\">In case of a life-Threatening Emergency, please call 911<\/div><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>How\/What Can we help?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As this effort is organized and run by 100% volunteers, we are limited by what we can do. However, here are the list of things that we are planning to do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Bring Medicine\/Food and Groceries to your home &#8211; for those families who are unable to do them (due to self quarantine)<\/li><li>Help with Emergency Travel needs<\/li><li>Help with Communication needs<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2>Who can get help from us ?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Preference will be given to the following folks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Anyone who is in affected by COVID <\/li><li>Any Family who is in self quarantine  <\/li><li>Any family \/ individual who is a high risk to get affected by COVID (Illness \/ and who are in medication)<\/li><li>Anyone who is elderly and single <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2>How to reach Valluvan Tamil Volunteers?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Email:  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"e911@valluvantamil.org (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"mailto:e911@valluvantamil.org?subject=CoronaEmergency\" target=\"_blank\">e911@valluvantamil.org<\/a><br>Phone: \u202a<a href=\"tel:\/\/5715354595%E2%80%AC\">(571) 535-4595\u202c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Information from Government<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/surveillance-and-investigation\/novel-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"VA Department of Heath - Updates (opens in a new tab)\"><strong>VA Department of Heath<\/strong> &#8211; Updates<\/a> <br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/surveillance-and-investigation\/novel-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/surveillance-and-investigation\/novel-coronavirus\/<\/a><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"CDC - Updates (opens in a new tab)\">CDC &#8211; Updates<\/a> <\/strong><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov<\/a><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/downloads\/sick-with-2019-nCoV-fact-sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"What do you do when you are sick? (opens in a new tab)\">What do you do when you are sick?<\/a><\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/downloads\/sick-with-2019-nCoV-fact-sheet.pdf\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/downloads\/sick-with-2019-nCoV-fact-sheet.pdf<\/a><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/downloads\/10Things.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"10 ways to manage respiratory symptoms  (opens in a new tab)\">10 ways to manage respiratory symptoms<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/downloads\/10Things.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" at home (opens in a new tab)\"> at home<\/a><\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/downloads\/10Things.pdf\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/downloads\/10Things.pdf<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2>What you need to do to be prepared?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Stock up the following items for at least 2-3 weeks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Non-Perishable items <ul><li>Rice, Dal, Oil<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Salt, Sugar or Sugar-Substitute(s)<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Coffee\/Tea (for those who absolutely need!!)<\/li><li>Soup Packs, Apple Sauces, Easy to eat food (for anyone who may be sick in the house during the lockdown period)<\/li><li>Peanut Butter, Jelly (for Kid&#8217;s sandwich)<\/li><li>oat meal \/ breakfast serials <\/li><li>Dry nuts &amp; fruits<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Medical Supplies <ul><li>Please contact your Health Care Provider Ahead of time for any prescription medicine needs)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Household items to keep your hand &amp; home clean <ul><li>Cleaning supplies (Clothes detergent,  Dishwashing liquid)<\/li><li>Hand Sanitizers<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Medicine &amp; Food needs for Pets (if you have Pets at Home)<\/li><li>Cash in Hand (for any emergency) <ul><li>to handle a week expense<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Gas \/ Charge<ul><li>Full tank of Gas in Car \/ Full charge in Electric Car<\/li><li>Electronic Items (like cell phone, laptops) &#8211; Charge fully<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2>How Can you be part of e911 effort  ?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Financial Aid &#8211; to purchase necessary items needed to be used in the effort<\/li><li>Be a Co-ordinator for your region &#8211; to call volunteers to deliver necessary items to the needy folks<\/li><li>Technology help &#8211; to be able to improve web-site\/email\/notification process.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please send us an email to e911-be-a-volunteer@valluvantamil.org with how you can help us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valluvan Tamil Volunteers are organizing an emergency response team to help with those who are in need during this critical &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":""},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"eq-thumbnail":false,"ect-jetpack-portfolio-featured":false,"ect-featured-content":false,"ect-service":false,"education-zone-banner":false,"education-zone-image-full":false,"education-zone-image":false,"education-zone-recent-post":false,"education-zone-search-result":false,"education-zone-featured-course":false,"education-zone-testimonial":false,"education-zone-blog-full":false,"education-zone-schema":false,"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":false,"featured-content-admin-thumb":false,"service-admin-thumb":false,"rpwe-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Lekshmi Velraj","author_link":"https:\/\/www.valluvantamil.org\/index.php\/author\/vta-president\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Valluvan Tamil Volunteers are organizing an emergency response team to help with those who are in need during this critical &hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valluvantamil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valluvantamil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valluvantamil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valluvantamil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valluvantamil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.valluvantamil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/www.valluvantamil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1533\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valluvantamil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}