TSA Officer Jill Hays At BWI Airport Has Sewn More Than 600 Free Masks So Far For People Across The US
BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- A local TSA officer is sewing hundreds of free face masks for people across the country.
Jill Hays works at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. She started making masks when first requests starting coming in from her daughter, a nurse in Pittsburgh, and her daughter-in-law, a nurse who works at a rehabilitation center in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
"Then I put out a message on Facebook telling people that regardless of their circumstances that I would make them masks. All they had to do was to send me a message," Hays said.
So far, she has made more than 600 masks. The largest request came in from a Florida hospital nurse who requested 60 masks.
Hays is sewing and shipping the masks for free, but does accept donations.
She sends the masks with a little note reminding the recipients to wash the masks before wearing them for the first time, and she frequently gets thank-you notes in return for her kindness, often with photos of the mask recipients modeling their latest coronavirus fashion statement.
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