Tucson COVID Tales No. 20: The THREAD Project at Imago Dei School, by Mark Flanigan

We are doing fine here and trying our best to adjust and cope with all the changes Coronavirus has wrought in our local communities. Our school is doing okay under the circumstances and has entered a new partnership, which is a real silver lining in a bunch of dark clouds. We are very happy to be partnering with our local refugee friends and some of our immigrant school parents on our THREAD (Together for Hope, Resilience, Empowerment, and Development) Project, a fair-trade sewing cooperative housed at Imago Dei, paying our partners to sew all-cotton face masks at home (sewing machines and all materials and supplies included). To date, since March of this year, they have sewn more than 15,000 masks, earning money and helping to protect public health in Pima County.

Our local refugee partners are originally from a number of different countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Our immigrant school parent partners are originally from Mexico. We are proud to be partnering with all of them, and fighting the Coronavirus together, on the THREAD Project here. For more info, please see: imagodeischool.org/thread/

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