Opportunity Details
Disaster & Emergency Services
Families, Homeless, Low-income communities, People with Disabilities, People with Health-Based Concerns, Immigrants, Refugees or Ethnic Groups, LGBT(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,Transgender), Military/Veterans, Offenders/Ex-offenders, Children, Senior Citizens
Age Minimum (with Adult): 18+, Minimum Age:18+
Make Mask Sewing Kits
You will provide the essential work of cutting donated fabric and putting together mask sewing kits! This role will save essential time and money for sewists meaning that masks will get to organizations more quickly, with less personal cost to sewists.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Must provide own sanitized face mask to be worn during entire service.
- Accurately measure and cut fabric and elastic according to specific patterns.
- Use fabric scissors and rotary blades.
- Accurately count fabric and elastic pieces and package all needed items within each kit.
- Compile kits for specific sewists if needed.
- Record the quantity of masks each kit should make, the specified pattern, and organization and/or sewist to be delivered to if specified.
Qualifications:
- Must provide own sanitized face mask.
- Must be comfortable wearing own face mask and gloves during entire length of service as will be in close proximity to material to be distributed to sewists and organizations as well as volunteer leader and other volunteers.
- Must be comfortable working in an environment in approximate 6-foot distance to 1-2 other volunteers.
- Able to stand for approximately 3 hours.
- Able to accurately measure using a fabric mat and/ or measuring device like a ruler or tape measure.
- Able to safely use scissors and/ or rotary cutters.
- Able to grip, steadily cut, and measure.
- Able to perform simple addition, subtraction, and doubling in measurement units.
- Follows directions for packaging kits.
- COVID-19 14-day quarantine has been completed and is no longer showing any symptoms if has tested positive for, or suspects one has experienced COVID-19 in the past.
Support Provided: Volunteers will be trained in kit assembly: measurements, tool usage, compilation, labeling kits, and placement of kits. A volunteer lead will be onsite to answer questions and assist in kit preparation. Volunteers will be purposefully distanced approximately 6 feet apart, but due to the nature of the building itself, cannot ensure that this is maintained 100% of the time. Due to this distancing effort volunteer shifts will be capped at 2 volunteers.
If you are an experienced sewist without access to a sewing machine, please contact the opportunity leader below. She will reach out and talk with you about arranging a time to come in to Make Nashville as a guest sewist following an orientation to the space.
If you are an experienced sewist without access to a sewing machine, please contact the opportunity leader below. She will reach out and talk with you about arranging a time to come in to Make Nashville as a guest sewist following an orientation to the space.
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In accordance with Mayor John Cooper’s Roadmap for Reopening Nashville, Hands On Nashville recommends the following guidelines for volunteering:
Individuals belonging to the following groups should not volunteer for in-person opportunities: ages 65 and up, those with elevated health risk or compromised immune systems, anyone who is feeling unwell (or who has been exposed to/is caring for someone who is sick or has a compromised immune system).
Volunteers who attend projects should take recommended precautions, including maintaining distances between themselves and other people; practicing hand-washing and sanitation of spaces; wearing gloves, masks, and other protective gear; etc. As always, consult a medical professional should you begin to feel unwell at any point during or after a project.
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