Here is an update on the Blog post (April 28, 2020) about the Face Mask project .
Our masks have travelled to Paulatuk , North West Territories. Julie Clark, principal of the town’s school contacted her mother, who lives in St. Norbert, and told her the school had run out of disposable masks and desperately needed reusable ones for the staff and students. The mother spoke to a CWL member (who had hear about our project) who then contacted Eva Arsenault. A box containing 200 masks were mailed to the school the following day.
This fall, the ladies from the St. Charles Mask Project were contacted by a group called Inclusion Selkirk (formerly called Community Living). This organization helps people with intellectual disabilities from all over Manitoba. There are 125 clients in 13 shared homes in Selkirk. For various reasons, eleven clients are unable to use ordinary masks. Annette Kohut and fellow parishioner Dianna Hooper designed and made 49 masks. The knitting group from St. Charles parish knit 49 “ear savers” which were also requested. (Ear savers are extensions used with the masks to make them more secure and comfortable.)
Merilee Mollard from Inclusion Selkirk gratefully accepts the special-order face masks and ear savers.