Agatha Quilts done! Stay tuned for future postings/needs!!!

Thank you to those who have prayed and had good intentions to help with this Sharing Quilts Effort. Grandma Rockton's Quilts are in loving hands and it's a JOY to be part of it too. We want those in desperate times to know they are Loved!

This will conclude our Call for quilts for Agatha Victims. I am about to go stateside for an extended period of time for maternity leave.

I will still be posting here! Posting other organizartions who are calling for Quilts for various Charities and Needs! We never know what desperate or traumatic even will come and call us to Share a Quilt!

Keep making quilts and it doesn't hurt to do a few and keep to the side when people may do this - ask for a quilt for a need!

Let me know about YOUR Charity Quilt project and I will post it here!

*hugs*
Jackie

Update on Quilt for Agatha Victims in Guatemala

Hello Quilt community! 

Commitment

We have had 4 people respond and commit to providing a quilt or two each! This is great and very much needed (you all have no idea). I know we'll need a lot more and exact amounts will be posted as soon as we know. Until then, I am going to make as many as I can with what I have in my humble stash. I just need to go buy batting in bulk somewhere as inexpensive as I can get!  Please, Email sharingquilts(at)yahoo.com to get on the list to commit to a quilt (or more) for a family that is now homeless because it rained so much that mud came down a hill and took their home.

  

The Need

I am typing this after my husband just attended a meeting of local government officials on many levels and area NGOs. A lot was learned about the exact amount of damage 10 minutes from our home and across three main villages/cities. After, speaking with my husband about the meeting, I asked what he felt we should do in our concentration of relief efforts. Until now we have been giving to a "general pool". He has picked a town that we will focus on and talk with the leader of that town (equivalent to a mayor) and talk about the 20 families on his list (he brought it to the meeting to get help for them) that, now, no longer have home and will not be able to rebuild where they were. The mayor has the families names and their needs, but we were not able to obtain that list tonight.

It's Personal

Now with this more focused approach, we can make this effort of relief more personal. We will adopt a family at a time as we can and help with their need(s).It will be so great to present a quilt that YOU made and send photos back of them being wrapped in your love! I'll hug them for you too!

Round 1 of many
So please keep inquiring to help! I have a current deadline of July 1st for this first round. I will be personally picking these quilts (or quilt tops) up in the states and bringing them back to Guatemala. I have some options in Mid to Late August for more to come down with people I know flying from the states to Guatemala. They will be handing them to me and as described above, we'll personally take them to a family that is on the mayor's list of homeless!

Photo by Genesis Davies - This is a cornstalk/bamboo home blown/washed down, basically destroyed.

Bless you and thank you for your heart in Sharing Quilts!
Jackie Davis

Featured over at Quilting Gallery

We feel so priviledged to have been featured in the Charity Quilts over at the Quilting Gallery!

I guess they are calling it a "Guest Blogger" but
we feel sew-excited to have the opportunity to get our word out!

So go on over to the Quilt Gallery to see our post!

http://quiltinggallery.com/2010/06/03/sharing-quilts/

*hugs*

Jackie Davis