{"id":114583,"date":"2020-03-30T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T22:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=114583"},"modified":"2020-04-02T13:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T23:38:16","slug":"uh-sewing-masks-calls-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/30\/uh-sewing-masks-calls-for-help\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> department sewing healthcare masks calls for help"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-ctahr-pattern.jpg\" alt=\"sewing\" width=\"676\" height=\"382\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-114625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-ctahr-pattern.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-ctahr-pattern-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/manoa-ctahr-pattern-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Healthcare and emergency personnel are frontline fighters in the war against COVID-19\u2014but their supplies are getting desperately low.<\/p>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/fcs\">Department of Family and Consumer Sciences<\/a> are making washable, reusable masks that disposable N95 filters can be inserted in, which can significantly help protect the medical community and others who work with vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhfoundation.org\/give\/giving-opportunity\/covid-19\">Support the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Student Relief fund and COVID-19 research<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Volunteers with sewing experience are needed to sew Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-compliant washable cotton fabric masks with pockets for N95 filters. <\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitypoint.org\/cedarrapids\/filesimages\/Coronavirus\/003902oo-1%20Olson%20Mask%20V07.pdf\">mask pattern (<small><abbr title=\"portable document format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/small>)<\/a> and watch an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitypoint.org\/cedarrapids\/sewing-surgical-masks.aspx\">instructional video on making the masks<\/a>. Please sew in fabric ties so the masks can be adjusted for different head sizes instead of using elastic hair ties as the video indicates.<\/p>\n<h2>Donate completed masks<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Honolulu County<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kimberly Kaohi, University Health Partners of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, (808) 223-9227 or email <a href=\"mailto:kkaohi@ucera.org\">kkaohi@ucera.org<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Elderly Affairs Division, (808) 768-7705 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elderlyaffairs.com\">www.elderlyaffairs.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> County<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Office of Aging, (808) 961-8626 (Hilo), (808) 323-4390 (Kona) or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcoahawaii.org\">www.hcoahawaii.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Maui County<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Office on Aging, (808) 270-7755 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauicounty.gov\/255\/Office-on-Aging\">www.mauicounty.gov\/255\/Office-on-Aging<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span aria-label=\"Kauai\">Kaua&#699;i<\/span> County<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Agency on Elderly Affairs, (808) 241-4470 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kauai.gov\/elderly\">www.kauai.gov\/elderly<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For questions, email Department of Family and Consumer Sciences chair <a href=\"http:\/\/YeeB@ctahr.hawaii.edu\">Bobbie Yee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Family and Consumer Sciences are making washable, reusable masks that disposable N95 filters can be inserted in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[212,1411,1416,1420,9],"class_list":["post-114583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-uh-helps","tag-family-and-consumer-sciences","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114583"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115049,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114583\/revisions\/115049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}