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\"This was an opportunity for us to say to the restaurants that we do not want to ask you to donate anything,\" she said. \"This is a time where the community wants to pay you to provide for someone else.\"
The meals from local restaurants are now going to four different hospitals in the Charleston area. Klomparents, Pigg and Garrett place the orders and pay the restaurants directly and then the restaurant delivers the food to the hospital, following each hospital's guidelines for safety.
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Pigg's father, Dr. Thomas Rogers Kyle, told \"GMA\" there are big smiles every time a food delivery is made at MUSC.
\"We live in sort of an insular world and having the community be that aware of what we’re doing, it’s unusual, but these are unusual times,\" he said. \"It's very heartwarming for us.\"
MUSC also recognized the efforts, telling \"GMA\" in a statement, \"The MUSC family greatly appreciates all the individuals, businesses and industries for their various donations at this incredibly intense period.\"
Klomparents, Pigg and Garrett are balancing the hospital delivery initiative on top of their full-time jobs and homeschooling their children. They say they plan to continue as long as the need exists and as long as people are willing to help contribute.
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Pigg has heard from friends in other cities asking her for tips on how they can replicate the effort in their cities.
\"That's the ultimate success,\" she said of those inquiries. \"The general consensus certainly seems to be that the [coronavirus pandemic] is going to get worse before it gets better, so we’d certainly love to keep doing it as the need continues to grow.\"
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