Stone Freeman has rallied a dozen family and friends to assist the Central Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce with the delivery of PPE, personal protection equipment, to 244 companies with a total of more than 2,200 employees starting this Friday and continuing next week. Chamber president and CEO Lauren Slocum said the PPE provided by the governor’s office and Commerce RI includes a sufficient number of masks and disinfectant for a month. Slocum said the chamber also expects to be delivering individual bottles of hand sanitizer when it becomes available. Freeman and his volunteers will be delivering more than 11,000 masks and certificates redeemable at Ocean State Job Lot for the disinfectant. As of Wednesday morning, Freeman was still waiting for the shipment to arrive so that his crew could start bagging [bags provided courtesy of Salk’s Ace Hardware] by company. Chambers and trade associations are working to get the PPE out to businesses under the governor’s plan to reopen the economy. Companies with 50 or fewer employees are eligible to participate in the program. They can register online at the Central RI Chamber of Commerce website.