Suay Sew Shop - Providing Masks and Jobs for Those at Risk in Los Angeles
On March 20, 2020, Heather Pavlu of Suay Sew Shop started an online GoFundMe campaign to raise $200,000 towards creating 10,000 masks per week for those on the frontlines in Los Angeles. Currently having raised $150,000, Suay is well on its way to fulfilling its promise while providing jobs to low wage and immigrant workers at a living wage in a safe environment. Suay CEO, Lindsay Medoff, and her friends were shocked by the number of mask patterns calling for cotton, a highly breathable, permeable fabric and wanted to find a fabric better suited for the job. Building a lab that could test particle filtration down to 0.3 microns, they tested every fabric they could find and discovered that by adding two blue shop towels and using a design that produces a tighter-fitting mask, they could make a mask that could block up to 95% of the particles they could test, while the cotton masks blocked 20% to 60% of the particles. Practical, innovative, and thoughtful, hats off to Suay and those who are using what they have where they are to make a difference helping us get through this crisis!
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From Suay's GoFundMe Site:
Suay can donate all of our resources, energy, machines and our community-driven organizational power, but we need you on board!
We are working with doctors, grocery stores, the city of LA, and nursing organizations to get 10,000 masks distributed next week and more to follow! Continuing to keep producing 10,000 masks a week.
We are working to get as much fabric and resources donated as we possibly can but we need YOUR help.
We are working to get as much fabric and resources donated as we possibly can but we need YOUR help.
- MARCH 30, 2020 by Heather Pavlu, Organizer
Thank you so much to every single person who STEPPED UP for our LA community! Because of your incredible response, we’ve been able to source effective materials, collaborate with experts in our community, and develop and produce a mask that we believe is the highest possible quality that a sewing facility can produce. I’m so proud of our team and moved most deeply by your support.
WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW:
We have already begun distributing masks to the folks that need them the most, and will keep doing so for as long as they are needed!
We have dialed-in production and are nearing our goal of producing 10,000 masks per week.
If you or someone you know is a healthcare worker, an essential worker, has any elevated health situation, or is a beautiful elder and needs PPE, please reach out.
WHAT’S NEXT?
We are continuing to source supplies and will need to keep up this effort and raising funds. Which means we need you to share this campaign!
We know that PPE is not the only problem our communities are facing, so Suay is working with organizations and businesses across the city to help keep workers and families afloat. Stay tuned for more.
We are here for you! We will keep fighting for workers! We will keep fighting for LA!
WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW:
We have already begun distributing masks to the folks that need them the most, and will keep doing so for as long as they are needed!
We have dialed-in production and are nearing our goal of producing 10,000 masks per week.
If you or someone you know is a healthcare worker, an essential worker, has any elevated health situation, or is a beautiful elder and needs PPE, please reach out.
WHAT’S NEXT?
We are continuing to source supplies and will need to keep up this effort and raising funds. Which means we need you to share this campaign!
We know that PPE is not the only problem our communities are facing, so Suay is working with organizations and businesses across the city to help keep workers and families afloat. Stay tuned for more.
We are here for you! We will keep fighting for workers! We will keep fighting for LA!
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