Because of the efforts a group of local volunteers partnering with St. Dominic's Hospital, plastic grocery, shopping and dry cleaning bags are being given a new life, repurposed into weatherproof ...

Karla Smilie Groves and eight of her friends meet every Tuesday and Thursday to weave mats out of grocery bags for their neighbors who do not have homes. “I have always had a heart for the homeless, ...

It started with some church ladies in Tennessee. Big Lake resident Liz Houck Kampa saw an online video of them using plastic bags to create mats for people experiencing homelessness. The crocheted ...

SALINAS, Calif. -- Thursday afternoons, a group of women gather at the Steinbeck Library gather to weave mats for homeless people to sleep on. They weave, not with cotton or wool, but with plastic ...

In a refugee camp in Greece, 5,000 miles from Nashville, the Music City-based nonprofit Thistle Farms is helping Syrian women create a new life after escaping their former war-torn country. "This is ...

Ngot Bi, is 91 years old and is one of the most revered senior citizens in Kampung Semera Ulu Sadong Jaya, Asa Jaya, Sarawak where she lives. She is among the few remaining traditional mat weavers in ...