April 20

The numbers!

***18,000*** Cloth crafted no-sew masks out to our community!! (to be made, have been given to above charities/healthcare providers.. or kept for those who made!)

-***32,950*** the number of masks the amount of material our group has purchased will make!!

** 22 cents per mask for supplies (shop towel, zip ties, rubber bands, paper clip and bag to hold)

** $6,855 raised!! We are within $400 of covering the cost of our current supplies! IF we receive donations above what we have purchased, we will order more!

**1,200 donated surgical and N95 masks

**1,000 hand sewn masks donated!!

Crazy to think that it was only TWO WEEKS AGO TODAY our cloth mask making project started with sharing a video!! And one month ago tomorrow the entire project started as an idea to connect nurses, RT's and docs on the front lines with masks hand sewn and donated masks from our community!

On April 6th, and after two weeks of getting frantic calls/txts from those on the front lines asking for hand sewn masks, we realized we were never going to have the capacity to meet the need list we were receiving.

We read an article quoting one of the inventors of the N95 masks suggesting using the shop cloth material as it was the best filter out there. Further unofficially lab tests found the shop material masks were even more effective than surgical masks!! After a couple of hours of figuring out how we make such a mask, we put out a video, and scraped together everything needed to make and ask for help from the community began sharing the material ... and the rest is history!!

As this project has been a bit of a build the plane after take off, we are so appreciative to everyone adapting to new methods of making the masks... and EVERYONE JUST JUMPING IN AND DOING THIER PART!!! It is crazy to think of the over 100 people who have made this a success!! And all the people who are kindly giving of their time, connections, resources, finances.. and PASSION!!!

THE STATS:

HEALTHCARE FACILITIES (we have given directly to nurses)

Luthern General

Edwards Hospital

Elmhurst Hospital

River View Rehabilitation

Deer Path Care

St Joseph's Hospital

Winfield Woods

KB Home in Burr Ridge

Meadowbrook Manor in Naperville

Symphony in Oswego

Casa Central in Chicago

Fox Knoll in Aurora

SHELTERS AND NONPROFITS:

Hesed House of Aurora (over 3000 masks!)

Lazarus House in St Charles

Mutual Ground in Aurora

Elgin PADS

Senior Services Association

Wayside Cross of Aurora

Cheers to our crafters!!! You are the heart and soul of the project, and those who make this happen! Heather Kos Pamela Werner Szponer Cheryl Rosentreter Torie Lange Diana Vendl-Wedow Dana VanSlee Andelman Danni-Lynn Kilgallen Korpela Dana Christensen Susan Rhoads Sheila Price Duggan Julie Mortensen Glanville and Heather Glanville Judy Pepera Katie Hayes Nancy Pauli Deb Andcats Sarah DeJohn Bonnie Gillespie Maiden Salonga Marla Thilgen and Mary Yudys Allison Moe Paula Nancy Moe Sheri 'Augustine' DeJong Jennifer Rothenberg Tracy Miller Wolford Brenda Engelhardt Sara Kubica Kahlenberg Katie Hayes Linda Glenn Becky McCabe Sarah DeJohn Theresa Tooley Barreiro Melissa Borovay Wilke Kay Bordenave Erin Hester Michelle Zopel Chambers Rob McKenna Maria Dripps-Paulson Marie Sykora Gatz Donna Badowski Sandy Westman Paula Merrington Martha Paschke Jamie Mosser Betty Mason Wells and many many more!

and our most talented seamstresses Ellen Jo Ljung Wilma Van Arragon Brenda Boxler Jackson and Margie Veseling

drivers Eric Gauthier and Toni Mitelsztet

those coordinating behind the scenes Dyzzy Singson Kramer Ron Herce Cheryl Loeb Naughton Jim Kaemerer Tina Medlin Willson Cathy Hill Brian Hill and logistics and more Karen Zilly, Sharon Anderson Schmal Sue Sanders, Linda Robertson

And thank you, thank you .. THANK YOU to our most generous donors who's gift enabled this project to happen! I wish I could name you all.. but fb has it's limits..

And thank you to our generous sponsors: Doctors of Physical Therapy and United Methodist Woman's Ministries of the United Methodist Church of Geneva

If you would like to learn more about how YOU can get involved in the project:

http://www.t2coaching.net/maskupproject

If you would like to donate to the mask project..

http://www.t2coaching.net/donate-to-the-mask-project

We hope to have an actual website up soon!