March of Dimes, a Doral-based nonprofit organization that aims to prevent birth defects and premature births, held the annual Broward March for Babies on Saturday at

MIAMI Nathalia Ashworth was 23 weeks pregnant when she and her husband Aaron left for a planned vacation to the Virgin Islands in February. A couple of days into vacation, I went into labor and started to have contractions to the point where I needed to go to an urgent care, thats all St. Johns had, was an urgent care, she said. They took care of me and tried to slow the labor contractions down and mentioned that if I had may baby there, there was a 10% chance, up to 10%, that she would survive. Because of the pandemic, the couple couldnt go back home to Boston. Baby Gabriella will likely spend several more weeks in the NICU in Massachusetts before she can truly come home.

It all prepared her to help people in need during the coronavirus pandemic. The business development manager at Jack & Jill Children’s Center, an organization aiming to break the cycle of poverty by helping children and their families, has been working hard to distribute free food at drive-through events. Alana Wortsman (Local 10 News)On March 25th, Wortsman was working outside of the Jack & Jill Children’s Center in Fort Lauderdale. Epidemiologists have advised that isolation is best to avoid COVID-19, the highly contagious respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus. For more information about how to join Wortsman’s effort, visit the Jack & Jill Center’s site.