A group of women from the Hacienda Mobile Home Park are donating sleeping mats that they have crocheted and knit from plastic bags to the Fullerton and Santa Ana armory shelters. For the past year and ...

In recent years, Debra Yencer has noticed an uptick of visible homeless in the Crossroads. The Victoria Advocate reports driving home from errands or volunteer work in Victoria, Yencer's heart has ...

It is Sunday afternoon in Meru farm, Kitale, and Tabitha Njeri, 16, is holding a crotchet needle, mat board, a tape measure and knitting thread. Villagers have nicked-named her “Njeri wa mats” owing ...

Knitters have long known about the health benefits of their hobby: reduced depression, anxiety and blood pressure and an increased sense of wellbeing, to name a few. But now, more and more knitters ...

SALINAS, Calif. -- Thursday afternoons, a group of women gather at the Steinbeck Library gather to weave mats for homeless people to sleep on. They weave, not with cotton or wool, but with plastic ...

(WIVB) — There are many wonderful organizations in Western New York that help the homeless. And there’s one group that spends hundreds of hours a week, tediously knitting. They call themselves “Mats ...

Tabitha Njeri (right) teaches Caroline Nekesa how to knit a table mat in Kitale town. [Martin Ndiema, Standard] It is Sunday afternoon in Meru farm, Kitale, and Tabitha Njeri, 16, is holding a ...