Mat For The Homeless

Though they may live under a bridge when it rains the ground still gets wet.

Mat for the homeless.

Provide comfort in a dark and lonely place. The group wove 25 mats and donated them to a homeless shelter. The mat is made of plastic and is about a 1 2 inch thick. Don t forget the dogs.

The mats are used to keep the homeless off of the wet cold hot hard ground. The mats are lightweight waterproof and help keep plastic bags out of oceans and landfills. Many of the homeless have dogs as traveling companions and they need a place to sleep as well. The may 2016 auxiliary magazine featured a follow up to its cucumel s compassionate carpets article it published a few months prior.

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. Each mat takes about 50 hours to make. We have now completed over 270 mats.

In the beginning the mats were taken to cornerstone ministry in the uptown area of chicago. Atlanta christian church is the scene every friday morning of members folding and cutting the plastic bags brought home from the store. Since 2013 jack bryers a parishioner at st. In return they received a group of pictures of individuals with their new mats.

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