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1/ If you’re like me and can’t sew, get out your stapler and find some blue shop towels to #MakeMasksSaveLives for those on the streets & shelter and outreach workers. #HomelessCantStayHome
2/ ½ the support services in Toronto are closed. The mobile response teams still distributing food and essential supplies desperately need masks to give out to the 9,200 people without homes.
3/ #COVID19 #classdivide. Underlying conditions are not only physical medical conditions, but also poverty, racism, classism, and colonialism.
4/ Supplies needed to make a #shoptowelmask: a stapler, tape, big paper clips, elastic bands & shop towels
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5/ How to make a #shoptowelmask: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7oE65D4jGk
(sub">https://www.youtube.com/watch... pipe cleaners, or any wire, for paper clips; holey socks can be cut in slices to make elastics)
(sub">https://www.youtube.com/watch... pipe cleaners, or any wire, for paper clips; holey socks can be cut in slices to make elastics)
6/ If you can help: 1/get supplies 2/wash hands 3/make masks in a clean space 4/let masks sit for 3 days in a bag 5/use gloves to drop them off (DM @giselegordon for porch drop off address)
7/ Can you help make masks? Buy materials? Drop materials to mask makers? Drop masks to shelters & outreach agencies? Comment to connect.
#PPEforshelterworkers
#masksforall
#PPEforshelterworkers
#masksforall
