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Cardinals give back Students create sleeping mats out of plastic bags to be distributed to the homeless By Tanny Khun, Reporter
The completed mats will be distributed to homeless people around Indianapolis at the end of the semester. Photo contributed by FACS teacher Mariette Fleck
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Senior Makayla Maxwell works on a mat. This is the Human and Social Services students' end-of-thesemester project. Photo by Jordin Baker
er classroom walls lined with plastic, FACS teacher Mariette Fleck sits in the front of her classroom with a large ball of plarn, or plastic yarn, crocheting a design onto the mat laying on her desk. Students in her Human and Social Services class have begun their end-of-thesemester project, making mats that will be distributed to the homeless people around Indianapolis. This project is known as Cardinal Mercy Mats. Cardinal Mercy Mats is a solution for plastic waste and is hoped to be beneficial to homeless people around the community. In order to get their final credit, students are required to complete a service project, and Cardinal Mercy Mats is the one this class has taken on. Students work
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individually on their mats. “We’re all excited to be able to give back to the community,” senior Makayla Maxwell said. “It’s something fun and easy.” According to junior Keyshon Reed, students in the class have bonded over giving back to their community, and they enjoy working on such a challenging project. He says he is thankful to be making something by hand to help others in need. He hopes that their project will make an impact on someone’s life and the environment in general. “We just wanted to help and try to change the community in a way that we could,” Reed said. “It also helps with recycling and the environment. It was like knocking out two things.” This is not the only class taught by Fleck that
