In just one day – one day mind you – you added 1,434 cloth masks to our completed spreadsheet. That’s right! As of right now, you have helped 28,717 front line heroes receive cloth masks they have been searching for. You have sent them your love and your gratitude all wrapped up in a cozy, soft, cloth mask.

Thank you, for once again, showing me, and everyone else – how we can move mountains when we work together. You inspire me! Thank you for never giving up and never giving in. Our front line heroes deserve only the best, and we have 3,212 front line heroes still checking their mailbox, praying their mask will arrive.

We can do this! You have proved, beyond the shadow of a doubt – that together – we can do this!!

For more information about our Masks for Heroes project visit our webpage or Facebook group.

Photo courtesy of mask recipients: Wake Women’s Health, Raleigh, NC

Our group has grown to 350 volunteers from across the country, sewing masks for front line heroes in hospitals, grocery stores, nursing homes, warehouses, manufacturing plants, and EMS personnel within 38 states. Our volunteers will continue providing cloth masks as long as they have materials to continue making cloth masks, and we have funding to cover shipping costs.

Anna Campbell is the Marketing and Community Relations Manager with TFTC Gardens. She shares, “our front line heroes continue to show up, day after day and sacrifice their wellbeing for ours, and it is an honor to be able to answer their call for cloth masks. We understand cloth masks are not PPE and support the production and supply of PPE to our medical professionals. During this time, this is how we can show them how much we care about them and appreciate everything they are doing for us.”

We are grateful for organizations partnering with us by donating their time, resources, and funds for our volunteers to continue making cloth masks and shipping them out. We thank Our Lady of La Vang Church in Raleigh, Ash Creek Baptist Church Mask Makers, Sew There Quilts and More, Moonlite Electric & Construction Inc., Lee’s Tailor in Apex, 9 Carvings LLC, ARS Extreme Construction, Lee’s Tailor in Triangle Mall, and Raleigh Little Theater for their support. We are also grateful for our volunteers who are flexing their well-experienced sewing muscles or learning how to sew for the first time.

Trauma Focused Therapeutic Community (TFTC) Gardens welcomes all volunteers who can sew. For more information about our Masks for Heroes project visit our webpage or Facebook group.

Photo courtesy of mask recipients: Montifer Hospital in Bronx, NY