It started with more than 1,000 empty milk bags. Woven together by Grade 7 and 8 girls in Waterdown, Canada, throughout November, the bags were transformed into two mattresses to be used in medical clinics overseas. Youth for Christ Canada’s iMatter girls club, a faith-based drop-in group for preteens, took on the project this school year at the suggestion of volunteer Lisa Proctor. For a month, the usual Wednesday afternoon gatherings were filled with sorting, cutting, folding, weaving, tying the five-and-a-half-foot sleeping mats, and taking them off the loom. The mats, made up of 525 bags each, have been given to the Southwestern Ontario Gleaners.From Milk to Mattress
It started with more than 1,000 empty milk bags. Woven together by Grade 7 and 8 girls in Waterdown, Canada, throughout November, the bags were transformed into two mattresses to be used in medical clinics overseas. Youth for Christ Canada’s iMatter girls club, a faith-based drop-in group for preteens, took on the project this school year at the suggestion of volunteer Lisa Proctor. For a month, the usual Wednesday afternoon gatherings were filled with sorting, cutting, folding, weaving, tying the five-and-a-half-foot sleeping mats, and taking them off the loom. The mats, made up of 525 bags each, have been given to the Southwestern Ontario Gleaners.
