Stitch A Mask Save A Life

COVID-19 ARMY

Stitch a Mask, Save a Life




    The COVID-19 pandemic has affected each of us and has everyone wanting to do something! Talk to anyone, and their first comment is – I wish I could help! For me, it began as a conversation with a friend. Her family runs a fabric business and she was trying to help by supplying local seamstresses with donated fabric. That was my lightbulb moment. Since I cannot sew, I had to find another way to help. I realized that there are a lot of talented people who can sew, and who want to help, but don’t have the supplies. Also, most seamstresses were working off of personal donations, but those can only go so far. That’s where the fundraiser came in. What started out simply as just family and friends helping out, soon grew into a GoFundMe campaign. 

 

    We are running a fundraiser to support making masks and PPE for healthcare workers in Massachusetts — the fundraiser is called Stitch a Mask, Save a Life. Our primary goal for raising funds is to support seamstresses and other volunteers who are working to make masks, surgical caps, buttoned headbands and other personal protective equipment for front-line healthcare workers. There are individuals as well as teams of seamstresses who are working round-the-clock to sew masks and other gear, and our goal is to help them with supplies and materials and help get the masks to the health-care professionals, the elderly, and other essential workers who need them the most.

 

    The fundraiser is being run by me, but it supports seamstresses from all over the area. We have provided masks to hospitals, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, EMTs, the fire department, the Postal Service and several other essential workers. We continue to have new seamstresses come on board and the need for masks continues to be a constant for now!

 

Our fundraiser has a GoFundMe campaign page. Here is the link to contribute —

 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/kzd8kd-stitch-a-mask-save-a-life

 

Please help us spread the word so we can do more and support more! 

–Renu Thamma