A kind woman in Iowa has made hundreds of masks and hang them on a tree for her community members.
Deb Siggins first started making masks for health care workers in March when a local hospital, UnityPoint St. Luke’s, told they were running out of masks.
The 55-year-old started sewing masks for the health care workers and created 100 masks for them.
But when people started appreciating her and she was told others also needed them, she decided to make it for her community as well.
She is now making hundreds of masks and hanging them on a tree outside her home so her community members can take the masks for free.
Deb, who works at a doctor’s office, told the Good Morning America: “It was hard to reach everybody so I just put on Facebook that I had a mask tree. I’m a giver, not a taker, so I feel really good.”
She got a message from her pastor saying ‘Use your gifts in a way that will help others during all of this’ so she decided to make masks as her gift is sewing.
She has so far made about 600 masks that are available free of cost to her community.
After making the masks, she hangs them on a tree in her front lawn. She said they couldn’t celebrate Easter this year so instead of an Easter egg hunt, she puts masks on the tree for people to pick them up.
Deb said: “With social distancing, they would come and pick up the masks and leave. They can help themselves.”
“You’re keeping your distance and it’s fun watching the people and guess who’s pulling in the driveway.”
Deb has not only made the masks for the health workers and her community members. She has also donated the masks to her co-workers, a local fire department, and grocery store employees.
She says making masks for people makes her feel so good as sewing is a gift given to her by God and she is happy she is using it for others’ benefit.
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