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Making Free Cloth Face Masks For Our Community

MoCo Mask Makers, an organization founded to mobilize a network of makers to sew “masks, given the anticipated growing need for PPE and the quickly vanishing supply”, has accomplished its mission by virtually any conceivable measure. And, as we know, this herculean mission was accomplished, at a great cost to some of the founders and leaders, who sacrificed much while pouring their whole hearts and souls into MMM’s effort to avert a public health crisis.

So we find ourselves with the initial crisis behind us, and with many, if not most, people in the organization needing time to take a breath. Our county and our state have begun a phased reopening. The “curve” has been sufficiently flattened, so as to allow our first responders and healthcare workers to avert a full-on outbreak, defy the bleakest models as to the timing of the peak of the COVID crisis, and do their jobs without undue risk to their own safety. MoCo Mask Makers has allowed Montgomery County to meet the most urgent needs of its citizens in the face of the Covid19 crisis. We - YOU - saved lives, eased minds, enabled people of all walks of life to conduct essential business without fear of breaking the law, gave hope to a community, inspired creativity and new enthusiasm for the textile arts, and in doing so created an everlasting bond between makers, artists, ‘craftivists’, organizers, and techies, not to mention the individual and organization recipients of our masks. MMM deserves all of the recognition it has gotten and will continue to get.

Nevertheless, some of us newer admin, myself and Isabel included, expressed our hope to see the capabilities of MMM continue to address our community’s needs as we move beyond the initial crisis stage; as stay-at-home orders are relaxed, schools and businesses reopen, and people start to convene in large groups again, and as mask-wearing, and mask-making for that matter, become increasingly hot issues of social and political controversy. We have come to realize that the community needs in this next phase look different, in many ways, from the needs which led to the founding of MMM.

Isabel and I, having been entrusted with the development of this “Phase 2” effort, are excited to introduce The Makana Project. Founded on, inspired by, and existent because of the vision and efforts of MoCo Mask Makers, the Makana Project’s mission is to mobilize and empower individuals in the fight for public health through education, advocacy and the distribution of free handcrafted protective wear.

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