Our group recently added to what we normally do. In addition to handing out quilts in the event of a fire. We also:
1. Provide fabric, clothes and homemade teddy bears to the facility for unwed mothers.
2. Provide clothes and other items to the battered women's shelter/counseling place.
3. Provide homemade bib's, lap robes, and stuffed animals to nursing home residents in our county.
4. Provide quilts to families who have lost their homes to tornadoes. (this is the newest addition)
We are just busy, busy, busy. Our club runs entirely on donations. Sometimes outsiders donated things for our yearly yard sale, or they bring over bags of stuff and hope we can use it. We raise money only once a year for our yard sale and raffle quilt. All of our thread, notions, quilt tops everything is supplied by the members. There are 10 or 11 of us I think. We also feed the community lunch each week kind of like a senior center does in the rest of this area.
I'm off to "work"...but I love it...
~M~