Two dozen women call themselves the Bag Ladies and the Happy Hookers! They all meet at CC Young, a senior living facility in Dallas, to make mats for the homeless. The mats are made entirely out of ...

People without a home don’t have to sleep on the ground. Several churches in Northwest Florida transform plastic shopping bags into sleeping mats for homeless people in the area. Two Fort Walton Beach ...

ABILENE, Texas — A group of women in Abilene is donating their time and their hands, crocheting mats for our homeless neighbors. 700 grocery bags makes one 3x6 foot crocheted mat, created using ...

MENOMONEE FALLS - Joan Romasko's fingers deftly wove unusual yarn with her crochet hook as a blanket-like mat spilled over her legs. The yarn is not for sale at a fabric store — it's actually plastic ...

When: 2-3:30 p.m. the third Tuesday of the month with the next get-together May 15. Where: Loveland’s Community Kitchen, 437 N. Garfield Ave. For More Info: Call ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Recycling plastic bags not only helps the environment, but provides comfort for the homeless here in western Massachusetts. Plastic bags are processed in balls of “Plarn,” or ...

Maryville — On a Monday morning, the sounds of rustling plastic bags and conversations echo through the hallway at Madison Avenue Baptist Church in Maryville. Volunteers are busy collecting, cutting ...

LONE TREE, Colo. (CBS4) – A resident at a senior living community saw a story on TV about making mats for the homeless out of plastic bags and decided to make her own for people in need across ...

Many of us have that bag (or bags) filled with other bags that seem to multiply after trips to the grocery store. But one Michigan woman is taking the ever-growing pile of shopping bags and making ...

A group of women are on a mission to comfort the homeless, transforming the most basic material, plastic bags, into something helpful and beautiful. They're folding, cutting and weaving mats by hand ...

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Volunteers are turning unused and unwanted plastic bags into something useful and distributing sleeping mats to homeless individuals who are not in Northeast Ohio shelters. The ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — A lot of people throw out their grocery bags once everything is put away, but a group of women in Arizona is using those bags to make mats for the homeless. The bags protect the ...