A lawyer from Green Lake is taking time off work to help make homemade masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Angela Bishop has been a lawyer for more than 26 years, and she is sending masks across the country with the help of her friends and family.
The masks have mainly been sent to Indigenous elders, knowledge keepers and veterans.
The team has made approximately 250 masks.
“Save the medical masks for the professionals,” Bishop says. “The masks we are making are not medical masks. It takes about a half-hour to make each mask. I should still be working. I’ve taken time off because this is a priority. We have fun. It’s such a good feeling.”
Camponi Housing Corporation has donated 200 recycling bags to Bishop.
The team is using the recycling bags to make the masks.
“Polypropylene is the material that I think is the most sensible,” Bishop says. “This is all a self-funded initiative. We’re proud of that. It’s really about people stepping up to the plate. An individual at risk is a family at risk, is a community at risk, is a nation at risk. It’s so important.”
Bishop says she is hoping to make around 1000 masks.
(Photo supplied by Angela Bishop.)