If you need a face mask, Hinds County District One Supervisor Robert Graham can help you out.
The supervisor is asking residents and neighborhood leaders seeking the personal protection equipment.
Graham said masks are being made available to homeowners’ groups, the elderly and infirmed, as well as others who are seeking them.
“If you know an individual who is elderly and can’t get out, we’ll get one to them in their mailbox,” he said.
Graham said the masks would not be mailed, but rather would be dropped off by a county worker and placed in a mailbox.
“We prefer to give them to a homeowners’ association, because they are the ones who know where the people live to get them to,” he said.
Hinds County is one of 23 counties in the state where residents are required to wear a face covering while in public.
The county has approximately 250,000 masks available for giveaway. They include disposable paper ones and reusable ones, he said.
Masks were provided to the county through the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other groups. The governor, lieutenant governor and speaker have also worked to make enough masks available, Graham said.
For more information, call Graham at (601) 714-6219.
