National AJET has come forward with a campaign to help support hospitals and healthcare facilities across Japan who are facing shortages of masks during the global pandemic. We’re calling upon crafty individuals (or anyone who feels ready and able to grab a needle and thread!) to help us make handmade re-usable face masks to provide to care givers, hospital workers and all those working to help those in need.
The Sew-A-Thon is set to begin on April 22nd and will run through until May 25th 2020, or when needs have been met. AJET have provided a thorough explanation and guidelines here on this PDF.
The PDF explains the necessary instructions for what is needed to make masks, as well as YouTube links demonstrating how to make them.
Dates have also been proposed for online Virtual Sew-Together parties!
If you’d like to get involved and help AJET reach their goal, please:
- Send an email to us at ajetinfukuoka@gmail.com to let us know you want to take part
- Please head on over to the AJET 2020 Mask Sew-a-thon event page on Facebook for current news, dates and details of the virtual meetings and more.
We are also looking for recommendations of local Fukuoka-based facilities that would benefit from our chapter’s participation! If you know of any local facilities that are in need of masks, please get in touch with us!
Let’s get sewing!