Community
We are a dedicated community of makers,
all volunteers, who are designing, cutting, sewing,
packaging, and driving, providing masks to people in need in our region.
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Our group was born from the efforts of The Community Care Planning group of Columbia County, a group dedicated to connecting and plugging into various self-organizing groups, using Facebook infrastructure. Folks on the group currently range from throughout several NY State counties including Columbia County. Click the photo of our membership or follow the link below to find out more!
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In this time of social distancing we are working from our homes in and around Columbia County, adults and children alike.
Our supplies (all donated from community members and local and national businesses) are sent to one house in Chatham, NY,
which has become our designated "warehouse". Our cutters cut out fabric and filter material for distribution to our sewists,
others spend their time unbending paper clips for nose pieces, cutting lengths of elastic, disassembling home air filters to re-purpose into the vital filter layer of our masks. Our talented network of sewists then work diligently and with love and care to assemble our masks and then they are taken to another designated "household warehouse" for final distribution.
None of this would be possible without our dedicated team of drivers, who pick up and deliver all of our donations.
They bring bulk fabric to cutters, cut fabric to sewists and beautiful, finished masks out for delivery.
They even bring our tired and worn-out machines to one blessed volunteer who has agreed to service our entire fleet,
and then bring them back, ready for more of this important work.
"We've been connecting with our local hospitals
to keep their healthcare workers safe amidst the unprecedented shortage
of personal protective equipment."
So far we have received requests from our local food banks, homeless shelters, EMTs, police departments, grocery stores,
other front-line workers,and many, many community members. We've been connecting with our local hospitals to keep their
healthcare workers safe amidst the unprecedented shortage of personal protective equipment. Although they currently have
adequate stores of masks for their nurses and other staff in direct contact with patients, they are able to use our masks to protect ancillary staff who are at lower risk of transmission. We have also been able to connect with a dedicated COVID-19 hospital in Brooklyn, NY who is distributing our medical masks to front-line healthcare workers, and our community masks to families of COVID patients.
Our goal is to provide those who are supporting us with masks to keep them safe and let them know they are loved
and appreciated by all of us. No one could have anticipated how this crisis would create the opportunity
to bring so many amazing and talented people together in such a beautiful, caring, and compassionate community.
other front-line workers,and many, many community members. We've been connecting with our local hospitals to keep their
healthcare workers safe amidst the unprecedented shortage of personal protective equipment. Although they currently have
adequate stores of masks for their nurses and other staff in direct contact with patients, they are able to use our masks to protect ancillary staff who are at lower risk of transmission. We have also been able to connect with a dedicated COVID-19 hospital in Brooklyn, NY who is distributing our medical masks to front-line healthcare workers, and our community masks to families of COVID patients.
Our goal is to provide those who are supporting us with masks to keep them safe and let them know they are loved
and appreciated by all of us. No one could have anticipated how this crisis would create the opportunity
to bring so many amazing and talented people together in such a beautiful, caring, and compassionate community.