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Milk bag mats for homeless.
Crafters from the nanaimo harbour city seniors are turning plastic grocery bags into sleeping mats for the homeless.
How to weave a milk bag mat part 1.
I live in barrie ontario canada.
Cut 2 inches off the top of the bag the extra piece that is longer than the actual bag 4.
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The milk bag mats offer people without beds an invaluable durable and washable alternative to sleeping on the often cold and damp ground.
Making milk bag mats.
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Jen leclair has been collecting milk bags from across york region namely in the georgina area newmarket aurora and east gwillimbury to make milk bag mats as part of the ontario legion s operation leave the streets behind a program dedicated to helping homeless veterans.
Not only can these milk bag mats provide comfort as a bedding alternative but have been used by health care professionals as a make ready substitute for an operating bed table where resources are scarce.
Plastic milk bag sleeping mats for haiti.
It takes about 5 hours and 135 milk bags to make one mat.
I first heard about it when i was talking with some women at a local coffee group.
Volunteers can then begin weaving the mattresses giving new life to what s.
Volunteers from across the niagara region come together every couple of weeks to make mats for the homeless out of milk bags.
Northwest haiti christian mission canada has a mats 4 haiti program that distributes milk bag sleeping mats and totes for people in haiti.
If you want the pattern for milk bag sleeping mats and the teddy bear you may e mail me at email protected.
Haiti is in dire need of our help and our groups have been sending mats there since 2001.