Home or Away? We’ve got it covered!

Wherever in the world you are at the moment, the pressure to stay safe is paramount. Hand washing, social distancing, shielding and self-isolation are words that we hear many times each day – each carrying the ‘stay safe’ message. The pros and cons of wearing face coverings are being hotly debated at the moment, too, and in the UK the advice is leaning towards it being particularly beneficial to protect ourselves and others by wearing a face mask.

And this is where our friends at Hope and Market Uniting Church in Merthyr Tydfil extend their entrepreneurship! As well as being regular fundraisers for HHI, the two Christines have been particularly busy. To the usual items which they have continued to sell under lockdown (cards, soap and profits from the sale of Traidcraft merchandise ), they now offer a very swish line in facemasks! And, of course, all the monies made are given to HHI.

Meanwhile, south of the Equator in Monze, Alasdair and Primeldah have been busy making and distributing facemasks too. In the July 2020 Interim report from HHZ, Carole Nzila wrote…
‘The tailoring ladies have continued to make masks for HHZ although we have now run out of linen for making the masks. The beneficiaries are poor people from the rural areas. Here, the cheapest mask is K5 [about 25p] and many people in rural areas can’t afford. In shops, the conditions are that you can’t enter the shop without putting on a mask’.

Brilliant! Thank you to Merthyr and Monze! Stay safe everyone!