What’s six feet long and two feet wide, warm in the summer and cool in the winter, and ideal for sleeping outside? Not expensive camping gear, but rather “Plarn” mats, which are cushy, body-size ...

A volunteer group of retirees is constructing and providing sleeping mats made out of recycled plastic bags for unhoused folks in Tucson, Arizona. According to News 4 Tucson, the "Mat Makers," as the ...

It started with some church ladies in Tennessee. Big Lake resident Liz Houck Kampa saw an online video of them using plastic bags to create mats for people experiencing homelessness. The crocheted ...

Over, under and over again: with thousands of plastic bags, determination, and a loom constructed out of PVC pipes, one group of children wove a way to keep the homeless from sleeping on the cold, ...

More than 60 Oklahoma Road Middle School students spent the morning Wednesday cutting discarded plastic bags into rings and tying them together to create thread for weaving into sleeping pads for ...

COAL VALLEY — A group of women known as "The Bag Ladies" at Trinity Lutheran Church in Coal Valley are weaving plastic bags into a ministry for the homeless. "Care Share Fellowship" members at the ...

Dallas Hilberdink is affectionately known as the bag lady in her neighbourhood. The Niagara woman is a member of Willing Hands, a ladies group at Lifepointe Bible Church in Niagara-on-the-Lake that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GREENSBORO, NC — A collaboration in ...

SNOHOMISH, Wash. -- Thursday was the weekly gathering among the ladies at Hope Foursquare Church in Snohomish, but this is no knitting circle. "Nope. This is a crocheting circle," said Sondra Hirsch.

This article was published 11/12/2017 (2946 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. “People don’t like to give to the homeless. You ask for money and they’ll laugh at you but if you ...