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September 6, 2014

Parish, school join forces to save humanitarian project

Students from the York Catholic school board weave together four-litre milk bags which are shipped to places like Haiti as protective packaging for other goods then distributed for use as sleeping mats.

RICHMOND HILL, ONT. - When a humanitarian project that turned old milk bags into sleeping mats stalled, Cathie Furfaro found new partners for the initiative at the nearby parish.

Published in Canada
December 7, 2012

Milk bags turned into beds

Working on the school’s loom, George Jenkins weaves plastic loops made from old milk bags to form a bed mat.

TORONTO - Students at St. Marcellus Catholic School in Toronto’s west end are turning old four-litre milk bags into beds.

Published in Youth Speak News