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Knights of Columbus Sends Oxygen to COVID-Stricken Amazon Region
February 12, 2021 GMT
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NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Responding to an urgent request from Archbishop Leonardo Steiner, O.F.M., archbishop of Manaus, Brazil, the Knights of Columbus has sent more than $200,000 in concentrated oxygen and personal oxygen concentrator devices to the Amazon regions of Brazil and Peru, where Indigenous populations have been hit hard by the COVID-19 virus.
Supreme Knight Carl Anderson immediately began the process of delivering aid to the Amazon region after hearing Archbishop Steiner’s desperate plea delivered via video in mid-January: “For the love of God, send us oxygen!”