Mat For The Homeless

Since 2013 jack bryers a parishioner at st.

Mat for the homeless.

The mats are lightweight waterproof and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills. The mats are used to keep the homeless off of the wet cold hot hard ground. Many of the homeless have dogs as traveling companions and they need a place to sleep as well. Provide comfort in a dark and lonely place.

The mat is made of plastic and is about a 1 2 inch thick. 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 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. Atlanta christian church is the scene every friday morning of members folding and cutting the plastic bags brought home from the store.

Each mat takes about 50 hours to make. 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 6 foot by 2 foot mat is made from 600 to 700 recycled plastic grocery bags. Though they may live under a bridge when it rains the ground still gets wet.

The may 2016 auxiliary magazine featured a follow up to its cucumel s compassionate carpets article it published a few months prior. In return they received a group of pictures of individuals with their new mats. In the beginning the mats were taken to cornerstone ministry in the uptown area of chicago. We have now completed over 270 mats.

Zachary in des plaines has been picking up the mats and distributing them to the homeless in our area. A smaller version of the mat say 3 3 or small mat that didn t get finished would be perfect.