Creating sleeping mats for homeless veterans has become a mission for a group of Crown Point Christian Village residents and members of the First Christian Church of Crown Point. Made from clean ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KETK) — A ministry in East Texas is doing its part to help the area’s homeless population. Since January, Made to Love Ministries and its volunteers have been making sleeping mats ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Stanthorpe. Followed categories will be added to My News. The mats, made using a loom which weaves plastic bags, are designed to keep people dry from moisture on ...

Plastic bags and cluttered kitchen closets sometimes go together like cheese and crackers, but unlike the second pairing, the first isn’t always a good thing. If, at the end of the month, you find ...

Before you throw away that plastic grocery bag, consider this: It could be helping the homeless get a better night’s sleep. The volunteers at Faith Westwood United Methodist Church in Omaha, Neb., ...

A group of volunteers has found a practical way to help the environment and the homeless in our area. The Duvall Bag Ladies take old grocery and other plastic bags and crochet them into sleeping mats.

CHICAGO -- This week's 4-Star-Chicagoan, New Life for Old Bags (NLOB), is an organization that uses plastic bags to create sleeping mats for the homeless. Board President Chrissy Batorski stopped by ...

CAMBRIDGE — When someone is homeless, it can be hard to carry around a heavy sleeping bag. Sleeping gear might still be affected by dew or rain on the ground, according to Beth Crouch from the ...

SAN ANTONIO – An act of kindness shaped by a simple grocery bag. A group of teenagers have a new purpose for the plastic bags so many of us bring home from the store. The organization Teens Give Back ...

WYNOT, Neb. (KTIV) — Students at Wynot Public Schools celebrated on Friday after collecting more than 16,000 plastic bags during September’s “plastic bag challenge,” an initiative designed to help ...

Since 2021, a group of volunteers from Good Shepherd Parish in Ubly has made more than 400 sleeping mats for people experiencing homelessness in Huron, Tuscola and Sanilac counties. Their primary ...