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Natural Organic Mattress from Natural Mat USA Evidently, studies have linked the baby killer, SIDS, to the kind of sleep products found on the baby’s crib. A chemically treated cr...

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Rita Krug, was tired of seeing all those bags scattered across the desert and filling up the garbage dumps. She had collected so many bags at her house that her maid suggested she stuff them into mattresses for poor children who might otherwise sleep on the floors of their homes. In 2000, Krug invited a few friends over for lunch and did just that. It became an occasional project.After Krug moved from the area, her friend Tonia Allen took the project to St. Paul’s, her local church in Mexico. Now every Wednesday morning, a group of parishioners and friends gather there to stuff plastic bags they’ve saved or collected from friends and neighbors into mattress covers, donating the finished products to local charities.

“It’s like an old-fashioned sewing bee, where you get together to do something mindless with your hands and talk about whatever subject comes up,” says volunteer Camilla Sands, whose tourism organization, Simply San Miguel, introduces newcomers to the many charity groups in the area. The St. Paul’s group raises money to buy the mattress covers (often by selling their own crafts, such as handmade Christmas ornaments), and to pay a seamstress to sew their shells.

The mattresses are easy to make. Each shell requires six feet of sturdy, nonflammable canvas fabric, which costs about $7. After the shells are sewn on three sides, the volunteers, mostly retirees, stuff them with clean plastic bags that have been tied into compact knots, using about 1,500 bags for each mattress. To finish, one volunteer sews the thick covers together by hand, using a strong sewing needle. It’s a time-consuming process; the volunteers, who number about 25 each week, turn out about 100 mattresses per year.

I think that its great they are doing something this worthwhile, don’t you?

via Plenty Magazine

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