Members of the Tibetan community have banded together to make masks, headwear and deliver hundreds of meals to frontline workers fighting COVID-19.

Volunteers of the Tibetan Canadian Cultural Centre (TCCC), on Jutland Rd., have been busy making meals, face masks and headwear for community members and frontline workers.

TCCC President Tsering Wangyal says the centre has delivered almost 400 hot meals, consisting of dumplings and fruit, to frontline workers at St. Joe’s Health Centre and a long list of seniors and long-term centres and other places of need.

“The workers love our hot meals,” Wangyal says. “They know we appreciate all their hard work and that we are there to serve them a nice meal.”

The volunteers a couple nights ago served 85 meals to workers at a long-term facility on Dunn Ave., and will be feeding others at an East Mall home where seniors have died due to the pandemic.

The meals are pre-packed by volunteers and taken to a care facility, where workers in gloves and masks them inside for the workers.

He says female volunteers have been making masks and hats by the dozens for members of the community who require them.

“Every couple days we take them cloth and pick up bundles of masks,” Wangyal explains. “The masks are gone very quick.”

The goal of the TCCC is to help Tibetan immigrants adjust to the culture, heritage and lifestyle in Canada and to promote and foster Tibetan culture and art in the community. There are more than 8,000 Tibetan-Canadians living in Toronto.

Donations to help with the meals can be made at www.tcccgc.org  Cloth is also needed so the women can make more masks for the community and emergency workers.