As we locals have been seeing lately, Matthew McConaughey's COVID-19 efforts in Austin never fail to impress, especially this week. Matthew and Camila McConaughey are donating approximately 80,000 masks to Austin and New Orleans first responders in an effort to protect against the coronavirus. The two teamed up with their friends and an organization they believe in to help in a time where help is needed most. The McConaugheys shared on Instagram a video of them delivering masks to the Austin Fire Department when they stopped by yesterday, April 10. The fire department is just one of many stops on their road to delivering thousands more to police officers, healthcare workers, and firefighters. "Our mission is to protect those who protect us," said McConaughey. The C-shift at Station 32 got a surprise yesterday, when @McConaughey and @iamcamilaalves stopped by to let us know we're getting several 1,000 N-95 masks soon, part of their donation of 80K to healthcare workers, FFs, and police officers in #ATX and #NOLA! 📸 DC T. Smith, AFD pic.twitter.com/aOVo4C6QPK— Austin Fire Dept (@austinfiredept) April 10, 2020 The Austin Fire Department tweeted, "The C-shift at Station 32 got a surprise yesterday, when @McConaughey and @iamcamilaalves stopped by to let us know we're getting several 1,000 N-95 masks soon, part of their donation of 80K to healthcare workers, FFs, and police officers in #ATX and #NOLA!" They were grateful for the visit and the big donation. View this post on Instagram Our 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. Matthew and I, our friends Bill and Tracey Marshall have teamed up with the organization #BStrong. We are passionate about helping first responders from our hometown Austin - Texas, Louisiana and nationwide as we combat this national pandemic. #thisisacrisis We will not go quietly. We will #BStrong I am only sharing this in case if you all want to help as well it took me over 2 weeks of research to find the right organization and the work they doing so 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! Stay strong this too shall pass... @officiallymcconaughey and I will be working with @bethennyfrankel, @globalempowermentmission, Bill and Tracey Marshall, @theellenshow, @billyjoel and many more on this amazing initiative - if you would like to help please see the link in my bio. A post shared by Camila Alves McConaughey (@camilamcconaughey) on Apr 10, 2020 at 5:00am PDT You can see the McConaugheys making one of many deliveries above, protected by masks and gloves themselves. Matthew shared the video from his wife on his Instagram story as well, spreading the message to his own followers as well as her. officiallymcconaughey | Instagram Story In Camila's post on Instagram, she shares with her followers "We are passionate about helping first responders from our hometown Austin - Texas, Louisiana and nationwide as we combat this national pandemic." After all she and her husband have been sharing about their safety efforts towards their community throughout this pandemic, it's no surprise that they would be donating such an important product to local stations in need.
