COVID-19 forced hospitals all over the United States to shut down keeping families from saying goodbye to their loved ones who fell victim to the virus.
Dr. Kryste Moore who is a dentist and a resident of North Carolina, saw firsthand people who couldn’t get the chance to have that last shared moment with their loved one.
Moore witnessed her senior Deacon from her church pass away from the deadly virus and she recounts how his wife and daughter felt because they were not able to say goodbye and be there physically.
“When I heard of his death, it hit me hard. His wife and daughter were not allowed into the hospital and were not informed of his immediate passing due to the overwhelming numbers of patients in the hospital suffering from COVID-19.”
Moore knew in her heart she had to do something so she then came up with the idea of creating a donation titled, “The Kryste Moore Project” where hospitals could have iPADS set up so they could say goodbye to their families without being in the room.
She reached out to her friend Muriel Evans- Buck, the Director of Development at Doctor’s Community Hospital who helped Moore turn her dream into a reality.
Evans-Buck got Moore into contact with the CEO of JI-Solutions who made the very first donation towards her project which helped skyrocket the project off the ground.
Moore, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc, a Black Greek Letter Organization, reached out to her line sisters and other members of the sorority to help donate towards the project.
Once Moore reached out to the National Headquarters of her sorority, she then had 24 IPADS and many donations of $5 towards the project.
Along the way, she met sorority sisters who had shared similar experiences of not being able to see a loved one due to hospitals shut downs.
Lynn Rowe is a resident of Bowie, Maryland and is a member of the same sorority as Moore and she lost her brother to the virus. Her sister-in-law found him grasping for air one night and he was then placed in the ICU and the family was not allowed to see him.
“We knew he was dying when he got placed on a ventilator. Even though he couldn’t speak to us, we still wanted to see him and at least tell him we loved him.”
Rowe was able to get an iPad through the Kyrste Moore project and this helped her family see him and say goodbye.
“Speaking to him helped me get the closure from his passing. Even though he could not talk back it was good for me to just tell him how much I love him and how I always looked up to him growing up,” said Rowe.
Maxine McCullough was another donor to the Kyrste Moore Project, and she lost her aunt to the virus and was unable to say goodbye.
“When I heard about the Moore project, I knew I had to donate. I do not want other families to have to go through what I went through,” she said.
Moore hopes the donations for her project continue to increase and her goal in the future is get over 100 iPads to many hospitals across the country.
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