Community Service Quilting Every year, Ocean Waves members make quilts as a community service project. The quilts are made at two guild meetings and members are asked to bring sewing tools and donate fabric. Quilt Patterns are chosen to accommodate beginning quilters, making this a modern day quilting bee and an excellent learning experience. Recent recipients have included Safe Space - a facility for abused women and their children, Sunrise Community – an adult care nursing home and Florida Baptist Children’s Home – a shelter for children and Bay Point Schools. Within our guild a small group of members a/k/a “We Care Quilters/Coral Gables Congregational Church Quilters" have taken charge of making quilts for the Quilts of Valor Foundation and the Bay Point School Charity. Over the years these ladies have donated over 350 quilts to the school and more than 15 quilts to the “Quilts of Valor Foundation”. 2008, October Ocean Waves Donated over 20 quilts to Patches, in Florida City. This is a wonderful organization that is devoted to the care of extreme medical needs children. The center needs your help. They are collection clothing items for the children and are also in need of food donations to stock the pantry. If you can help please call: Rosa Brito at (305) 606-6103 __________________________________________________________________ |
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MIAMI CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
PRESENTATION
Here is picture of Carol Roach and Cathy Viar
presenting one of the Haitian patients with a quilt
from Community Quilts. We gave out 7 quilts to
girls and boys ages 6-15.
I returned later in the week with Phyllis Salt and
she and I gave out 6 more to babies and a couple
of boys that were on different units. I also gave
out one to a 3-yearold boy who was leaving for
Jackson rehab.
All of the patients and their parents or other
relatives with them were extremely grateful.
These families have so much resilience and some
of the patients will be eventually relocated to
areas such as Boston where they have distant
relatives. So the quilts were definitely needed.
Cathy Viar
PRESENTATION
Here is picture of Carol Roach and Cathy Viar
presenting one of the Haitian patients with a quilt
from Community Quilts. We gave out 7 quilts to
girls and boys ages 6-15.
I returned later in the week with Phyllis Salt and
she and I gave out 6 more to babies and a couple
of boys that were on different units. I also gave
out one to a 3-yearold boy who was leaving for
Jackson rehab.
All of the patients and their parents or other
relatives with them were extremely grateful.
These families have so much resilience and some
of the patients will be eventually relocated to
areas such as Boston where they have distant
relatives. So the quilts were definitely needed.
Cathy Viar
January 2010
50 bear animals were donated to the
Miami Fire-Rescue for children they
encounter who have been traumatized.
Pictured: Deputy Chief Reginald Durren,
representing the Miami Fire-Rescue and
Benevolent Association.