Summerlea United Church in Lachine has an amazing ongoing project of weaving mattresses for the homeless out of plastic milk bags. Between January and June of this year they delivered 25 mattresses and five smaller seats to the Open Door Shelter on Park Avenue. Although they have a lot of groups helping them collect milk bags, they can never have enough, as it takes 450 bags to make the large mattresses and approximately 160 for the smaller cushions (that’s 12050 milk bags used in just the first half of 2019)!
The SouthWest Community can help by saving the bags whenever you buy 4 litres of milk. All brands and colours of bags are welcome, as they just make the mattresses more colourful. Drop them off on Sunday or call ahead to bring them by during the week. When we have collected a good number, Amy will deliver them to Summerlea.
Two Summerlea volunteers with a milk bag mattress.