Mat 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.

Mat for the homeless.

Each mat takes about 50 hours to make. 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. 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 mats are lightweight waterproof and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills.

Provide comfort in a dark and lonely place. Don t forget the dogs. Grab the extra plastic bags you have lying around and use them to crochet a plastic mat for the homeless sleeping on the streets. Many of the homeless have dogs as traveling companions and they need a place to sleep as well.

The mats are used to keep the homeless off of the wet cold hot hard ground. In return they received a group of pictures of individuals with their new mats. Though they may live under a bridge when it rains the ground still gets wet. The group wove 25 mats and donated them to a homeless shelter.

Atlanta christian church is the scene every friday morning of members folding and cutting the plastic bags brought home from the store. A smaller version of the mat say 3 3 or small mat that didn t get finished would be perfect. Zachary in des plaines has been picking up the mats and distributing them to the homeless in our area. We have now completed over 270 mats.

The mat is made of plastic and is about a 1 2 inch thick. Over 170 mats were delivered to chicago.