Mat For The Homeless

The group wove 25 mats and donated them to a homeless shelter.

Mat for the homeless.

When i went through those pictures and saw one of an 8 year old hugging so tight onto that mat i just started to cry georgeson told the inland daily bulletin. The mat is made of plastic and is about a 1 2 inch thick. Though they may live under a bridge when it rains the ground still gets wet. A smaller version of the mat say 3 3 or small mat that didn t get finished would be perfect.

Since 2013 jack bryers a parishioner at st. The mats are used to keep the homeless off of the wet cold hot hard ground. Grab the extra plastic bags you have lying around and use them to crochet a plastic mat for the homeless sleeping on the streets. Each mat takes about 50 hours to make.

Over 170 mats were delivered to chicago. The mats are lightweight waterproof and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills. The purpose of this group is to use the plastic bag strips to crochet into 30 inch by 70 inch roughly 2 5 feet by 6 feet sleeping mats for the homeless. The may 2016 auxiliary magazine featured a follow up to its cucumel s compassionate carpets article it published a few months prior.

Atlanta christian church is the scene every friday morning of members folding and cutting the plastic bags brought home from the store. In the beginning the mats were taken to cornerstone ministry in the uptown area of chicago. We have now completed over 270 mats. Don t forget the dogs.

Zachary in des plaines has been picking up the mats and distributing them to the homeless in our area. Many of the homeless have dogs as traveling companions and they need a place to sleep as well.