Woman making homemade masks for those in need

A group here in North Alabama is making homemade masks for anyone who wants the extra security

With the need for medical supplies - there is a group here in north alabama making homemade masks for anyone who wants the extra security.

Nurses - grocery store employees - nursing care workers - you name it.

Waay 31's sophia borrelli caught up with the group's organizer and some one making the masks to see just how easy it is.

If you can sew - you can help people in your community during this coronavirus pandemic.

There is a group on facebook called the making safety masks for the front line north east alabama covid-19.

Felicia jones is the organizer.

Felicia jones, organizer: "our nurses just don't have the protective equipment that we need and that they can use the homemade covers to put over their issues covers to keep them cleaner to keep it safer for them as well as people they are treating."

Jean mason lives in eva alabama and showed me how to make the masks.

Jean mason, makes homemade masks: "i cut my strips, sew them together, turn them and cut them together and then you wind up with a seven one square.

And you plead it and put elastic in the ends and one in 5 minutes."

Sophia looklive: "mason says by tonight she will have made more than 300 of these homemade masks and she doesn't plan on stopping."

Jean mason, makes homemade masks: "we just do what we can and we need people helping."

Jones says anyone can join the group to learn how to help.

She said all of the masks she collects are cleaned and donated to local people in the community who need them.

Felicia jones, organizer: "it was a need and i've always, i've always had the the heart if you see a need, you fill a need and if you wait for somebody else to do it, it's not going to get filled."

In eva - sophia borrelli waay 31 news.

Earlier this week - the c-e-o of huntsville hospital said he saw people at the hospital in homemade masks.

He said any little bit helps.

If you would like to help - you can find the group on facebook.

We will also have a link to the facebook group on our website