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
(i.e., https://www.homedepot.ca/product/scott-shop-towels/1000839739)

5/ How to make a #shoptowelmask:
(sub 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