Goals:
- Coordinate charity and outreach sewing/quilting efforts close to the hearts and interests of our membership.
- Offer targeted charity sewing challenges and opportunities with clearly communicated goals in mind.
- Support various charitable organizations actively seeking quilted items by providing quilts for their fundraisers/projects/programs.
- Promote sewing and quilting skill development using a variety of techniques.
- Provide opportunities for group interaction as well as individual participation.
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Opportunities Without Deadlines:
Quilts for Kids
Visit their website: https://www.quiltsforkids.org
About: Quilts for Kids is a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming fabrics into
patchwork quilts to comfort children facing serious illness, trauma, abuse, and natural
disasters. The Local chapter serves San Antonio Children's Hospital on a regular basis
as well as women's shelters, local NICU, and “No kids on the Floor”. They have also
been able to provide quilts during natural disasters.
How to help: Pick up Kits at meetings, sew tops, and or quilt quilts. Join in charity sew
days.
Seton Home
Visit their website: https://setonhomesa.org/
About: Seton Home works to break the cycle of abuse and poverty by providing a caring home, education, and support services necessary to transform the lives of pregnant and parenting teen mothers and their children.
How to help: Pick up Kits at meeting, sew tops and or quilt quilts. Join in charity sew
days.
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