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September 6, 2014

Parish, school join forces to save humanitarian project

Students from the York Catholic school board weave together four-litre milk bags which are shipped to places like Haiti as protective packaging for other goods then distributed for use as sleeping mats.

RICHMOND HILL, ONT. - When a humanitarian project that turned old milk bags into sleeping mats stalled, Cathie Furfaro found new partners for the initiative at the nearby parish.

Published in Canada