Handmade mask donations

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, our communities have been asking how they can help. The most important thing you can do right now is to remain safely in your homes and continue to practice social distancing on the occasions that you have to venture out.

While you are home, however, you can help protect our frontline healthcare workers by making handmade face masks.

We have heard from multiple community organizations and local sewing groups asking how they can create and donate these masks, and we have gratefully created a mechanism and system for them to do so. To help preserve our supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE), Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is providing instructions on how to sew face masks for our frontline Associates. These masks will not take the place of PPE but will help extend the utilization of the N-95 masks that are crucial for proper healthcare.

Click here to view instructions about how to properly sew and create the face masks.

Masks may be mail or dropped off at Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach, located at 600 N. Jefferson in the Medical District of Memphis — or at Germantown United Methodist Church, located at 2331 S. Germantown Road.

Please contact Rev. Dr. Stacy Smith at stacy.smith@mlh.org with any questions you may have.

If you have physical supplies such as N95 masks, face shields or others items that you would like to donate, please click here for more information about supplies needed by Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare.

If you are interested in making an online gift to specifically support our COVID-19 efforts (or to inquire about other in-kind donations), please visit here to give.

As we meet the unprecedented needs of this pandemic, we are grateful for your support.