Volunteer!

I am interested in volunteering. How do I get started?

1. Please clarify if you want to be a sewer, distributor or fabric collector. Email freemaskproject@gmail.com

2. As a sewer:

   1. Describe your sewing level, approximate location, contact information, preferred pickup location in your email
   2. Review post (DIY Homemade masks using Halyard sterilization wrap) to determine the pattern you want to use for mask making 
   3. Pick up your fabric and other materials. We provide the cloth fabric and the Halyard medical fabric which can be picked up or delivered (to be arranged with our volunteers). All Halyard materials we distribute have been carefully collected into clean plastic bags once they have been sterilized in the hospital. Because of community spread of COVID-19, we recommend sterilizing the fabric with dry heat at 70C for 30min prior to use.
   4. Once the masks are made, they can be dropped off with our volunteer distributor and new material can be picked up at the same time.

3. As a distributor:

   1. Describe the geographical area you are willing to cover for distribution in your email.
   2. You will be asked to help distribute Halyard fabric or masks to volunteers or community contacts.

4. As a fabric collector:

   1. For cloth fabric, please get in touch with your local fabric store for donations of cotton, polyester or silk material.
   2. For the Halyard fabric, please get in touch with the nurses or doctors involved at your neighborhood medical center to recruit their help. You can start to collect this material at your local hospital in a clean plastic bag which should be picked up frequently to avoid contamination.
      1. We are only asking for CLEAN sterilization wrappings that should be opened and stored in a clean environment prior to ANY patient contact.
   3. Store the bags of fabric in a dry, low humidity environment and coordinate with the sewers and distributors re: pick up or drop off of the material to the sewers. 

THANK YOU for helping out your community!

Additional Specialized Roles:

1. Instructions on mask sterilization for packing and distribution