Sleeping Mats For Homeless

They re a welcome comfort to those living rough while also keeping more plastic out of landfill and our marine systems.
Sleeping mats for homeless. Maria mendez young and other american legion auxiliary members in california are part of an initiative to create and provide these sleeping mats to homeless veterans in their community. Back in 2013 we wrote about new life for old bags a chicago group that crochets plarn sleeping mats for the homeless. Plarn is simply yarn made from plastic bags and it s been around for a long time although it keeps being re discovered by the mainstream media apparently. The ground can get very hot or cold to sleep on and just having a little bit of separation between the wet ground and the body can mean a lot.
Many of the homeless have dogs as traveling companions and they need a place to sleep as well. E ach 6 foot by 2 foot mat is made from 600 to 700 recycled plastic grocery bags and takes about 50 hours to make. A smaller version of the mat say 3 3 or small mat that didn t get finished would be perfect. This particular group of about a dozen women has been meeting almost every week for more than a year converting.