LONGVIEW, Texas (KETK) — A ministry in East Texas is doing its part to help the area’s homeless population. Since January, Made to Love Ministries and its volunteers have been making sleeping mats ...

Because of the efforts a group of local volunteers partnering with St. Dominic's Hospital, plastic grocery, shopping and dry cleaning bags are being given a new life, repurposed into weatherproof ...

A group of women are on a mission to comfort the homeless, transforming the most basic material, plastic bags, into something helpful and beautiful. They're folding, cutting and weaving mats by hand ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – From what could’ve been thrown out to something that could change lives. OzarksFirst has been learning about an effort in Springfield to help homeless people get better sleep.

Karla Smilie Groves and eight of her friends meet every Tuesday and Thursday to weave mats out of grocery bags for their neighbors who do not have homes. “I have always had a heart for the homeless, ...

HOLT, MICH. (WLNS) — A woman and her mother are on a mission to collect hundreds of plastic grocery bags to transform them into something useful for people facing homelessness. The idea was created ...

A group of volunteers has found a practical way to help the environment and the homeless in our area. The Duvall Bag Ladies take old grocery and other plastic bags and crochet them into sleeping mats.

NORMAL — Thousands of plastic bags were reused Saturday to create comfort for the homeless in Bloomington-Normal. Normal Public Library hosted a crafting event to transform donated bags into sleeping ...

HOLT, MICH. (WLNS) — A woman and her mother are helping those in need by using their own skills. They are making sleeping mats for the homeless by crocheting plastic grocery bags together. Tiffaney ...

JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - Laura Shephard of Jackson County wants to lend a helping hand to those in need by creating sleeping mats for homeless people. Shephard says about 600 plastic bags are ...

You may think of plastic bags as handy vessels for getting things from the store to your house. You may think of them as an environmental scourge. For Pat Roby, they are a way to help the homeless.