Mat For The Homeless

Grab the extra plastic bags you have lying around and use them to crochet a plastic mat for the homeless sleeping on the streets.

Mat for the homeless.

The mats are used to keep the homeless off of the wet cold hot hard ground. We have now completed over 270 mats. Since 2013 jack bryers a parishioner at st. A smaller version of the mat say 3 3 or small mat that didn t get finished would be perfect.

Provide comfort in a dark and lonely place. Atlanta christian church is the scene every friday morning of members folding and cutting the plastic bags brought home from the store. The may 2016 auxiliary magazine featured a follow up to its cucumel s compassionate carpets article it published a few months prior. 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. In the beginning the mats were taken to cornerstone ministry in the uptown area of chicago. In return they received a group of pictures of individuals with their new mats. The mats are lightweight waterproof and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills.

Though they may live under a bridge when it rains the ground still gets wet. Each 6 foot by 2 foot mat is made from 600 to 700 recycled plastic grocery bags. Don t forget the dogs. 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. Many of the homeless have dogs as traveling companions and they need a place to sleep as well.