Milkbag Crocheting In Toronto Ontario

This page is for sharing information about groups and individuals in the Toronto area working on the Milkbag project.   Do you want to connect with each other?   Share your info?  Get together to ship the mats and bags?   Are you interested in teaching others how to cut and crochet the milk bags into mats?

Is there anyone in GTA willing to manage this webpage, answer emails and help coordinate the efforts around the city?

Drop off location for finished mats:

Canadian Food for Children Warehouse
1258 Lakeshore Rd. E.  Mississauga, Ontario. L5E 3B8   (905) 274-9239
(just w. of Dixie Rd. on the south side - run by volunteers - open weekdays only 7 a.m. to noon

contact Anne for more information about Toronto area   email: margdowney@hotmail.com  

contact Admin  (Barbara) to add your news to this webpage

Active Groups

St. Marks United Church in Whitby has an active community group who meets every Wed from 1-3pm. They have already made over 300 mats!  They are weaving mats now and have 2 looms setup so that everyone is welcome to come by and give it a try.

http://www.stmarkswhitby.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=81:st-marks-projects-picture-gallery&catid=12:photo-gallery&Itemid=14

Jubilee United Church near Don Valley & Lawrence at 40 Underhill Drive   

Join us on Tuesdays! The Mad Mat Makers meet in the Heritage Room at 1:00 p.m.   We have already made over 60 sleeping mats with the help of our friends from Parkwoods, Glen Ayr, Lansing, and Donminster United Churches, as well as the youth from Senator O’Connor Catholic Secondary School.   Always looking for more friends. 

http://www.jubileeunited.ca    (416) 447-6846

St. Michael Catholic Academy in Thornhill (elementary school)  

School in East Toronto

We rolled out the collection initiative as a 'Me to We' global community project, so all the kids (450) are encouraged to bring in the washed milk bags.  The Ecoteam will then sort, cut and roll the balls.  I will then have a crocheting club at lunch to start creating the mats.  Sounds like a great thing to do now that the weather seem to be changing and we will want to be indoors some of our lunch hour.Really its a 3 for 1 with the school - environmental, global support, and a club for kids to learn a skill and have fun! 

Requests for Workshops or Partnerships

Port Credit  school - Queen of Heaven Elementary School is looking for a contact in their area.  contact Admin 

St. Conrad School in North York or Downsview  is looking for help getting started on this project. contact Admin 

Durham area school. The students at our school would like to make mats for Haiti. Is there anyone in Pickering, Ajax, Whitby or Oshawa who can help teach us?   contact Admin 

Central Ontario Leadership Group (COLS) a youth leadership group is looking at doing the milk bag project for a volunteer project at our 3day seminar at the end of May 2012 in Mississauga. We want to cut bags into strips and NOT actually crocheting the mats. We're located across central Ontario with our areas specifically being Toronto, Mississauga/Oakville, Hamilton, Burlington, Brampton and the Niagara area. We will need extra milkbags   contact Admin\

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