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Mercy Mats for the Homeless

  • 11/03/2021
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
  • West Allis Library (7421 W National Ave, West Allis)

Registration

  • Thank you for registering to attend the Mercy Mats project. Feel free to bring any clean plastic bags you may have from the grocery store/Target, etc. so we can reuse them, but Mercy Mats will bring bags as well.

Registration is closed

On Wednesday, November 3rd we will be returning to the West Allis Library to assist the Mercy Mats volunteers at their regular weekly project preparing materials for sleeping mats for local homeless people, made out of plastic bags!

Volunteers from Mercy Mats of West Allis will help new volunteers learn how to do this work, and then they will later distribute the completed mats to a homeless shelter they work with in Milwaukee. 

There is a job for everyone, including sorting bags, flattening bags, making plarn (you guessed it...plastic yard made from the plastic bags!) and for the crafty people in the group, crocheting the plarn into mats. 

Making one mat is quite labor intensive and takes multiple weeks, but what a difference a mat makes to the person who will receive it!  

You can check on the Mercy Mats West Allis Facebook page for more info on their weekly Wednesday projects -- all are welcome, just drop in  unless you have  a large group, then please contact them through FB Messenger prior.  

This project is open to members ages 6+ and masks are required to participate.




414-209-2216

Address:
PO Box 1854 Brookfield, WI  53008 

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