Masks for Friends for Health in Haiti

Our second shipment of masks is on it’s way to our Friends for Health in Haiti. This shipment contains 225 masks made by the Hopewell community. Read the article published in FHH’s newsletter about the first shipment of masks. To see their whole newsletter, click here.

The following is excerpted from the newsletter article “MASKING UP”!

“We have made it a requirement of all patients coming to our clinic for consultation to wear masks. We’ve seen a variety of ‘masks’, ranging from little paper masks to bandanas and scarfs wrapped across the face. When Beverly Mills, a deacon in the Hopewell Presbyterian Church in NJ wrote to me and asked if we could use some handmade cloth masks, I was thrilled with the idea and went about figuring out how to get them shipped down here to us. With help from our logistics partners, masks from NJ, Milwaukee and SD were packed in drums and made it down here in July. We immediately began distributing them to patients who need them and they’ve been thrilled!

Two patients who were especially appreciative of the masks were siblings Julienne and Cledenor Laurent. They always come faithfully to the clinic for follow-up of their hypertension and loved the masks they were given recently.”