Hastings teen commended after creating seven crisp packet blankets for the vulnerable
13 year old Savanna Isles made the blankets for the Crisp Packet Project, based in St Leonards on Sea.
A 13-year-old who has made survival blankets for the vulnerable using crisp packets said she did it to "make a difference close to home".
Savana Isles, who lives in Hastings, has made seven blankets, with each one being made from roughly 56 crisp packets, over the course of January to March, as a means of fulfilling the volunteering requirements for the DofE Bronze Award.
The blankets were made for Community Interest Company (CIC) Crisp Packet Project, which is based in St Leonards-on-Sea, in East Sussex, and creates items including survival blankets and bivi bags - sleeping bag covers - out of crisp packets and plastic waste.
The year nine student at St Richard's Catholic College in Bexhill, East Sussex, told the PA news agency: "I wanted to do something that would make a difference close to home".
She said she was unaware that crisp packets could be used to make blankets prior to volunteering with the company.
"I didn't actually know what you could do with crisp packets but once I went there, I saw what they could be made and it was very interesting," she said.
Through word of mouth among family, friends and those in the local area, she collected hundreds of packets to use for the blankets, and also made use of packets given to Crisp Packet Project through donations.
She said her favourite part of the project was "seeing how many blankets we made".
"It was also nice knowing that they were going to go out to people somewhere to help them," she added.
Recently, Savana's blankets were given to the charity London Homeless Welfare Team.