Success StoryVolunteers provide skills to assist with Covid-19



Volunteers provide skills to assist with Covid-19

Author: Donna Fryman

Planning Unit: Fleming County CES

Major Program: Apparel and Textiles (Non-Master Clothing Volunteer)

Plan of Work: Developing Community Leaders

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

The COVID-19 Virus closed many businesses and placed a strain on health care providers worldwide creating a high demand for personal protection equipment for health care workers which included isolation gowns plus cloth face coverings. These items were being requested by health facilities and the general public. Thus the much needed basic life skills were put into action by Extension homemakers.

Primary Plus requested homemakers in the region to sew isolation gowns from material provided by them. The Fleming County Homemakers and general public were contacted to help make isolation gowns. Two Fleming County Homemakers took on the task of cutting out the fabric and making kits for Master Clothing volunteers in District 1 to use.   They spent several hours cutting out kits 95 kits that involved 14 bolts of fabric. Four homemaker members from Fleming County made a total of 25 gowns.

Along with the gowns , Homemakers, local volunteers and Amish community donated fabric, elastic and time to make over 2500 cloth face coverings and cloth and crocheted ear savers that were donated to the UK Children’s Hospital, local senior center, schools, local nursing homes, businesses and for family and friends.

The basic life skill of sewing will continue to be a needed as the current virus continues and schools, health facilities, businesses and the general public continue to need cloth face coverings.






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