As many hospitals are in desperate need of personal protective equipment, also known as PPE, many seamstresses are stepping up and answering the call.
Margie Bridges of Stewart said she’s a member of a group of Grenada. She said the ministry is connected to Emmanuel Baptist Church, and it’s a group of seamstresses who have answered the call to fulfill the need during this time.
“I’ve made 392 masks,” Bridges said. She said in total, the group has made 10,000 and has donated them to the University of Mississippi Medical Center Grenada, Tallahatchie General in Charleston, and other hospitals. She said they’ve also given them to the nursing homes in the Golden Triangle and a nursing home in Greenwood.
“We’ve donated them to the hospital in Greenwood and other businesses,” she said. “There are other ladies in the Stewart area who are also making masks. I think one is fulfilling an order for Baptist-Memorial Hospital in Columbus,” she said.
Bridges said for her when she saw on the news that hospitals were running out of masks, it was only right to answer the call and help them out. She said it activated several seamstresses to answer the call.
“We’re helping them out, it’s the only thing you can do,” she said.
Teresa Bridges and Patsy White, of Stewart, said they began making masks to help those who couldn’t find them anywhere. They said they’re not making as many as Margie, who they said makes about 400 masks, but they’re thankful they can help.
Bridges and White said they’d given masks to Sta-Home, White said she’s given two batches to her sister Delma Mitchell, who’s a registered nurse and works for Sta-Home and Bridges said she’s also sent some to Grenada.
White also said she’d sent some to her daughter, who works in Butler, Ala. and her daughter-in-law who works as a vet in Sumrall.
“I’ve given masks to different ones who need them,” she said.
They said they’re thankful they can still help some amid this crisis. “I guess it’ll put a smile on someone’s face by giving a person a colorful mask, it makes you feel good to think you’re helping,” Teresa Bridges said.
