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NJ woman creates business out of making masks for children
SOMERS POINT, N.J. - An Atlantic County woman started a business, Chickpea Cards, making thousands of masks for children. Chelsea Reyes initially began donating her masks to charity at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. “I was donating to first responders, nurses, anyone who really needed it and anyone who said, I know an organization that’s looking for masks, at that point there was a shortage,” she said.After being furloughed from her marketing job at the Borgata and donating hundreds of masks, Reyes began to see the need for her business.“It evolved from there because then everyone needed one and there was a shortage everywhere,” she said.Reyes says she cobbled together fabric where she could get it, and left it to social media,