Plarn It!

We love spending time with our brothers and sisters in Haiti. We sing with them, play soccer, draw, blow bubbles, do the hokey pokey, read, arts and crafts…we’ve done just about everything with them, or so we thought until we heard about Plarning. Yep, no typo there – Plarning (Plastic + Yarn + ing). A master plarner can turn a few plastic bags from a grocery store into a purse, a tote, a hat, a skirt…a skirt? Seriously, just how eco-friendly do we need to be?

While Haiti hasn’t embraced recycling on a national level, the house mamas and girls at Jumecourt sure seemed to like plarning. They liked it almost as much as our GO team liked plarning with them. Take a look…