AFLCMC employee’s family members help meet need for face masks

The Prosser family continues to work with a neighbor to provide masks for local nursing home and Veteran Assistance residences. (Contributed photo)

The Prosser family continues to work with a neighbor to provide masks for local nursing home and Veteran Assistance residences. (Contributed photo)

Achim Prosser, a member of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Special Projects Division, and family are pitching in during the COVID-19 pandemic to support their community.

Hearing about the need for face masks and worried about at-risk family members, friends and elderly neighbors during the pandemic, the Prosser family decided to help.

Kim, Achim’s wife, searched the internet for facemask designs, bought some fabric and dusted off her sewing machine to start the journey to help the community. The family, including kids Karley, 13, and son Liam, 11, fine-tuned their skills, design and manufacturing process and started producing masks.

The kids help cut out patterns and iron the straps for Kim to pin together and sew. In less than two weeks, they produced more than 90 masks that have been distributed to family members and the community free of charge.

The Prosser family continues to work with a neighbor to provide masks for local nursing home and Veteran Assistance residences.

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