Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves have joined forces with Bethenny Frankel to provide 80,000 crucial protective masks to the healthcare workers, police and fire personnel who continue to trudge on in hazardous conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Frankel, 49, took to social media on Friday to thank the celeb couple for their contributions in coordination with her charity organization BStrong, which the reality star set up to aid with emergency assistance amid times of crisis.
‘#BStrong is so grateful to @camilamcconaughey and @officiallymcconaughey for getting involved in this fight and donating funds for 80,000 protective masks to [be] distributed to the warriors on the front lines of this pandemic who are risking their lives to save ours,’ said the Real Housewives of New York star. ‘Louisiana and Texas are in their hearts and prayers as they show support for those police officers, fire fighters and healthcare workers who so desperately need this aid.’
The latest: Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves have joined forces with Bethenny Frankel to provide 80,000 crucial protective masks to the healthcare workers, police and fire personnel who continue to trudge on in hazardous conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic
The philanthropic star, who has also assisted with crises in Puerto Rico, ended in writing, ‘Our eyes are clear and our hearts are full,’ with the hashtag, #cleareyesfullheartscantlose.
Images and videos from the posts from Frankel and Alves, 38, showed the couple delivering boxes of protective materials to authorities in Austin, Texas.
Alves said she and the Oscar-winner, 50, are also set to work with Frankel, Ellen Degeneres, Billy Joel, Bill and Tracey Marshall and the nonprofit Global Empowerment Mission in their efforts to aid those at risk of contracting the virus in the course of serving the community.
‘Matthew and I … have teamed up with the organization #BStrong,’ she said. ;We are passionate about helping first responders from our hometown Austin – Texas, Louisiana and nationwide as we combat this national pandemic.’
Helping out: The duo posed at a distance with firefighters in Austin, Texas
Persistent: Alves vowed, ‘We will not go quietly’ and said she came to channel her efforts toward the organization Frankel set up after researching charities for more than two weeks
She said their ‘mission is to protect those who protect us, by providing healthcare workers, firefighters, police officers, and others with approximately 80,000 masks needed to battle the #COVID19 virus.
Alves vowed, ‘We will not go quietly’ and said she came to channel her efforts toward the organization Frankel set up after researching charities for more than two weeks.
‘I wanted to share with you in case if it can inspire you as well to help, or inspire you to pick a lane to help others whatever that lane is even if your lane is helping your neighbor, calling people, emotional support, donations, volunteer …pick a lane and do it well!’ said Alves, who’s been wed to the A-lister since 2012. ‘Stay strong this too shall pass…’
In the clutch: The famed couple had cardboard boxes of 3M masks for first responders
Focused: The couple placed the boxes for law enforcement suiting up amid the pandemic
McConaughey, who won an Oscar for Best Actor in 2014 for Dallas Buyers Club, has helped spread resources and awareness about social distancing and safety amid the challenging times.
‘There is a green light on the other side of this red light that we’re in right now, and I believe that that green light is going to be built upon the values that we can enact right now, the values of fairness, kindness, accountability, resilience, respect, courage,’ he said in a clip released last month. ‘If we practice those things right now, when we get out of this, this virus this time might be the one time that brings us all together and unifies us like we have not been in a long time.’
He continued: ‘So yes, let’s see if we can make some lemonade out of this lemon that we’re in the middle of, turn a red light into a green light … just keep livin’.’
Setting an example: The Lincoln Lawyer star and his spouse practiced proper social distancing
Brave: The Dazed and Confused star shared a shot of the outing on his social media
The international pandemic has impacted a number of celebrities, as Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Idris Elba and Andy Cohen are among the notable names who have tested positive, as well as Prince Charles and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Other notable Hollywood names to test positive for coronavirus include actresses Ali Wentworth, Olga Kurylenko, Debi Mazar and Rachel Matthews; and actors Kristofer Hivju and Daniel Dae Kim. Performers to succumb to coronavirus-related symptoms include Jaws actress Lee Fierro, 91, Aliens actor Jay Benedict, 68, and Nashville actor Allen Garfield, 80.
As of Friday, the death total for COVID-19 – declared a public health emergency by World Health Organization – had soared to 18,461 people in the U.S., The COVID Tracking Project reported, with 492,678 total positive diagnoses.
On a global level, 102,525 people have died amid 1,691,719 positive diagnoses worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.