Mat 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.

Mat for the homeless.

Since 2013 jack bryers a parishioner at st. The may 2016 auxiliary magazine featured a follow up to its cucumel s compassionate carpets article it published a few months prior. Provide comfort in a dark and lonely place. We have now completed over 270 mats.

Each 6 foot by 2 foot mat is made from 600 to 700 recycled plastic grocery bags. Many of the homeless have dogs as traveling companions and they need a place to sleep as well. In return they received a group of pictures of individuals with their new mats. The mats are used to keep the homeless off of the wet cold hot hard ground.

Over 170 mats were delivered to chicago. In the beginning the mats were taken to cornerstone ministry in the uptown area of chicago. 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.

Though they may live under a bridge when it rains the ground still gets wet. 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. The mat is made of plastic and is about a 1 2 inch thick.

Zachary in des plaines has been picking up the mats and distributing them to the homeless in our area. Grab the extra plastic bags you have lying around and use them to crochet a plastic mat for the homeless sleeping on the streets.