Face Masks for FCC Families

Urgent Request for Face Masks for Foster/Adoptive/Kinship Families
and Child Welfare Workers

Faith Communities Coalition on Foster Care (FCC) has recently received an urgent request from the Department of Health and Human Services to ask people to donate face masks, hand sanitizers and gloves for our foster/adoptive/kinship families and child care workers. 

If you are interested in helping in some way, here are some suggestions:

1. Do you have cotton materials for making face masks such as quilting material or sheets/pillowcases, elastic or seam binding that you can use or donate? We will have a bin for donated materials outside the Eagle Entrance. 
2. If no sewing machine, would you be interested in cutting out the masks from a pattern?
3. Or, if you have a machine, would you be willing to sew up some masks?
4. Use whatever pattern you would like.  We are sending out this one (below) from the CDC but have found that the masks really need to be a bit bigger.  So if you follow this pattern, cut the elastic to 8” and not 6” inches.
5. You can leave any finished face masks in the bin outside the Eagle entrance on Saturdays so that we can pass them along to our Department of Health and Child Welfare workers on Mondays.  We’ll let you know when this donation drive is completed.
6. If possible, let us know how many you are making so that we can have a good idea of the total count. 
7. Email or contact Lyn Martens or Kate Thoresen anytime for more details or to make arrangements to get material and/or elastic.  Lyn:  lynmartens@wowway.com    Kate: katethoresen@fpcbirmingham.org

 Thanks so much for your willingness to be part of sharing Easter blessings in this tangible way!