a world of pain and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? John Keats |
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Charity Name: ABC (At-risk Baby Crib) Quilt Project Attention: Betsy Perry Description: They make quilts for local hospitals to be used for children with HIV infection, cocaine addiction, or other serious illnesses. Many of these children have no families and cannot be placed in foster or adoptive homes. Sometimes the ABC Quilt is one of the child's only possessions. When children die they are sometimes buried in the quilts. Geographical Area of Service: Nationwide For Information: email Betsy Perry
Charity Name: AIDS Quilt Names Project | Address: 2362 Market Steet, San Francisco, CA, 94114 Phone: 415/863-5511 Description: People who have lost dear ones to AIDS make panels and send them to the Names Project. The Names Project sews the panels into large chunks and sends the chunks around the country to help the bereaved through the grieving process and also to heighten the public awareness of the disease. Geographical Area of Service: USA? For Information: send SASE to the above address or call the above number.
Charity Name: Blankets for Prisoners' Babies | Attention: Texas City Sheltered Housing Address: 5509 Attwater Ave., Texas City, TX 77590 Phone: 254-865-6704 Description: About one quarter of women entering the prison at Gatesville, TX, are either pregnant or post-partum; in 1996 160 women there gave birth. Dona, the prison chaplain at Gatesville, would like to collect about 200 baby blankets or baby quilts a year for these babies. Geographical Area of Service: Texas City For Information: email Dona Gallagher.
Charity Name: Boggy Creek Gang Camp | Address: Orlando, FL Phone Number: (407)628-0411 Description: They need patchwork quilts for 120 beds. The camp is free for chronically ill and physically disabled kids, and volunteers are going to stitch the quilts if they're provided squares. Geographical Area of Service: Orlando, FL For Information: Call (407)628-0411.
Charity Name: Bright Hopes Project | Attention: Mary Ruth Flores, Greater San Antonio Quilt Guild Address: P. O. Box 65124, San Antonio TX 78265 Description: These are 36 x 45" TIED comforters (approx dimensions) that are given to the children at the San Antonio Children's Shelter. Each child who arrives from whatever source (neglect, removal, abusive situations, etc.) is allowed to pick a quilt from the "Quilt Cupboard." The child's name is written in permanent ink on a special label on the quilt. That quilt stays with that child, even after leaving the shelter. These quilts are not complex, can be preprinted/cheater fabrics or they can be as detailed as you want. Use the "pillowcase" technique so you don't have to do binding. Geographical Area of Service: San Antonio TX For Information: send SASE to the above address.
Charity Name: Children in Common: see Sew Orphans' Snugglies
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Charity Name: Circle of Children | Attention: Melvina Winter or Lucille Weasel Bear Address: (Winter) 100 Main St., Pine Ridge, SD 57770 (Bear) 80 Main St., Pine Ridge, SD 57770 Description: Circle of Children is a fabulous sponsorship program on a Lakota Indian reservation, in which sponsors commit to a relationship with a child until s/he turns 18. We send a card once a month, send birthday and Christmas presents, and school supplies. We let these kids know that they are important. Pine Ridge has, last I heard, the lowest per capita income in America and the highest unemployment (around 65%). Like many reservations, substance abuse is high -- there are no jobs, nothing to do -- so people drink. Many times residents move to the cities, find nothing there, and return to the reservation. We hope to break the cycle of poverty by changing the way these children view themselves. Because the poverty is so bad, many families' standard of living is unknown to most of us: no central heating and sometimes no running water. Winters are bitterly cold in South Dakota and most homes are substandard with no insulation. Many Lakota families heat with only a wood burning stove and families sleep on the floor together. There isn't much money for warm clothes or bedding. Any size quilt is welcome. Shivani, the executive director of Circle of Children, said that families especially need blankets for babies. The truth is that every size is needed. Obviously, because of the level of poverty, they have to be functional -- i.e., easily washable. Melvina runs Children's Village, a group home for children that the Children's Services Dept. can't place. Lucille is a teacher and, as most teachers in an impoverished area, knows which families have the greatest need. Both are on the Board of Directors of Circle of Children. Geographical Area of Service: Pine Ridge, SD For Information: email Joyce Jones.
Charity Name: FISH (Friendly, Instant, Sympathetic Help) | Attention: Carol O'Neill Description: FISH is part of a worldwide network of volunteers who help local residents in need. The Herndon-Reston, VA group gives beds/mattresses to needy people, including many who are setting up home after leaving the shelter. In conjunction with this, we try to provide a quilt to go with each bed. Basically we are making quickie quilts: cheater cloth or large patches, tied rather than quilted. All sizes are needed. If you would like to make a quilt, or a top, or make a donation, it would be gratefully received and acknowledged. Geographical Area of Service: northern VA For Information: email Carol O'Neill.
Charity Name: Kaye Reed Chapter of Spokane Community Comforters | Attention: Cindy Collett Address: 817 East Longfellow, Spokane WA 99207 Description: We give all quilts we make to "people who need love as much as they need warmth." We try to pick groups that may not be as well known as some others and ones that aren't currently receiving quilts from another source. We also try to choose needs that involve a healing process for those involved (battered women and children, victims of child abuse, etc.) We have even given a quilt to a family who was burned out of their home as a result of religious persecution. All of our fabric, batting, backing, etc. are donated. We started out of many reasons, but one of the things we knew was that we all had fabrics and UFO's around that might never get finished and we knew people who would love them. (We're anxious to tell others how we started if they want to start their own group and don't know how.) Geographical Area of Service: Eastern Washington For Information: send SASE to the above address or email Cindy Collett.
Charity Name: Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament | Attention: Sister Mary Regina, OP Address: Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament, 29575 Middlebelt Rd., Farmington Hills, MI 48334 Description: This is a wholly self-supporting Dominican (Catholic) monastery whose gift shop provides some of its income. In addition to supporting itself, it supports community outreach programs run by the Dominican order, such as an adult literacy center in New Mexico. Sr. M. Regina makes quilts for the monastery gift shop; they have been unexpectedly good sellers. She has no access to materials (fabric, batting, thread, tools, inspiration) aside from donations. Geographical Area of Service: The monastery first, then throughout the US, then world-wide. For Information: Email Carrie Bryan.
Charity Name: NAAICE (National Association for American Indian
Children and Elders) | Attention: Vashti Hurst Address: NAAICE, P.O. Box 1906, Pine Ridge, SD 57770 Description: A couple from Seattle, Vashti Hurst and Andrew Hurst M.D., relocated to the Pine Ridge reservation several years ago and have dedicated their lives to improving the lives of these most impoverished of Native Americans. At this point, babies are being delivered, and the mothers have NOTHING to wrap them in, and temperatures in SD are -60 in the winter. Vashti has been cutting up old blankets for them. Vashti said they could use 100 quilts now, but she would be delighted with even 5 quilts. Geographical Area of Service: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD For Information: Email Lucinda Gilbrough
Charity Name: Precious Wrappings for Priceless Bundles | Attention: Becky Hatfield (Parent Support Specialist) Address: University of Utah Medical Center, 50 North Medical Dr., Salt Lake City, Utah 84132 Description: They give small (20 inches square) quilts to parents of newborns who die right away for various reasons. They are allowed to wrap the baby in the quilt, hold it, then keep the quilt as a remembrance. The quilts can be hand or machine quilted or tied, backed with flannel so they are soft. The front can be just one block with borders, or a preprinted panel, etc. A great way to use up UFOs! :-) Use the "pillowcase" technique so you don't have to do binding. Geographical Area of Service: Utah? For Information: Call Becky Hatfield at 801-581-2098
Charity Name: Project Linus | Attention: Karen Loucks-Baker Description: Project Linus is a grass roots charitable project originally created to help children who are suffering from cancer. It has broadened its focus to include all seriously ill or traumatized children. They can use blankets or quilts for the children receiving treatment. Project Linus has taken off, and is now spreading all over the country and hopefully the world. What is needed now is coordinators for different areas. If you can fill this type of position, please e-mail Karen at Prjctlinus@AOL.com. Geographical Area of Service: 100 chapters in North America For Information: email Karen, or see the Project Linus website.
Name: Quilts for Kids | Attention: The Quilting Bee Address: 357 Castro St., Mountain View, California 94041 Descriptions: This quilting store (The Quilting Bee) is taking cotton fabric and block donations for a group called "Quilts For Kids". They'll take all size cotton fabric donations. They need batting, but they only want big pieces. And -- the best part -- they take block donations! Now you can get rid of all those UFOs that are making you feel guilty! Make sure the box is clearly labelled as a donation. Geographical Area of Service: northern California? For Information: call 800/492-6397 or 415/969-1714; email The Quilting Bee; see the store's web page.
Name: Quilts from Caring Hands | Address: 889 Grant Street Plaza, Corvallis, OR 97330 Description: Make quilts for children in crisis and need. Cotton fabric appreciated!!! Geographical Area of Service: Oregon
Name: Sew Orphans' Snugglies | Attention: Karen Porter Address: 2903 Montebello Terrace, Baltimore MD 21214-3131 Descriptions: Tens of thousands of children remain in orphanages in Eastern Europe and Asia. The lucky children are being adopted but most remain in the institutions where there is usually inadequate attention, few decorations for visual stimulation and few toys. Every day, families travel to adopt. Most are only too happy to take supplies and gifts. A few of us have been making small quilts (about 18"x24"). Several dozen are already in baby homes in Russia. If you can make one, two or more small quilts, if you can encourage quilt groups or civic groups to make some, we thank you. Think simple but colorful -- a strip quilt, simple block quilt or printed design with a contrasting border would be great. Think small -- about the size of a pillowcase. Think thin -- takes up less space when packing. Flannel makes a wonderful soft backing and a pillowcase or sheeting has worked well for batting. These will be laundered frequently so they should be durable. Machine quilting is wonderful. Remember that these are for small children so please, no embellishments like buttons or tassels. Geographical Area of Service: Latvia, Russia, Lithuania For Information: call (410) 426-3078 |
