Milk Bag Sleeping Mats For Haiti

In a warm climate such as haiti s the sleeping mats become soft and have proven easy to clean.

Milk bag sleeping mats for haiti. It takes about 150 milk bags crocheted and melted together to make on child sized mat. Milk bags of course. Since 2005 hundreds of them have reached the orphanages in gonaive. Sleeping matts for the homeless in haiti.

By tara deschamps special to the star. How to weave a milk bag mat part 2 4 steps on to cut the bags into strips. See the process of crocheting common plastic milk bags into a sleeping mat. Supported by our friends and colleagues in neighbouring schools the milk bags will be recycled into washable quick dry bed mats providing an alternative to sleeping on the damp hard ground.

Cut 2 inches off the top of the bag the extra piece that is longer than the actual bag 4. These mats help prevent people from sleeping directly on the hard ground and. Dickey 79 is helping a charity organization in hamilton that has been busy sending sleeping mats made out of milk bags to homeless people in poor nations notably haiti for a few years. They had an overabundance of milk bag yarn made and ready to be used but not enough people to make the mats.

If you want the pattern for milk bag sleeping mats and the teddy bear you may e mail me at email protected. Turning milk bags into sleeping mats for developing countries. The mat sauvé is talking about is composed of milk bags found on any supermarket shelf. Northwest haiti christian mission canada has a mats 4 haiti program that distributes milk bag sleeping mats and totes for people in haiti.

I live in barrie ontario canada. She did once visit haiti though. 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. The milk bag mats offer people without beds an invaluable durable and washable alternative to sleeping on the often cold and damp ground.

Sudburians are creating sleeping mats out of milk bags for those less fortunate in third world countries. Haiti is in dire need of our help and our groups have been sending mats there since 2001. Fold in half again. Sat march 26 2016 timer 3 min.

I first heard about it when i was talking with some women at a local coffee group. Since the devastating earthquake in haiti there is a desperate need for these mats.