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Craft Hope projects.
For their current project, #11!, they're asking people to put together birthing kits for Haitian midwives to bring to new mothers.
Half of the kit is intended for the midwife's use during delivery - gloves, soap, a clean piece of plastic for the mother to lie down on, etc., and the balance of the kit is for the new baby and mama.My craft group got together on a couple of evenings and made tote bags, blankets and dollies, and we were able to assemble 5 kits for this worthy cause.
My Elder helped me put the final items together this morning, and we sent our box off in the mail today.
The deadline for this project is March 1, so you still have time to join in and do some good!

Craft Hope

Last night, and into this morning, we had a neighborhood Crafty Mamas meetup, and we did the latest Craft Hope project together.
The Liberia Orphan Education Project helps by sending school supplies to Liberia.
They contacted Craft Hope and asked if people could send educational bean bag sets.
We gathered last night and made a set of alphabet bean bags and a set of the numbers 0-9.
It was a truly collaborative project.
We made a little assembly line, each of us in charge of one of the steps.
It's so gratifying to be able to help others, while working to strengthen our own little community.
I'm off to the post office now,
have a terrific weekend!

Craft Hope

"Craft Hope is a faith-based, love inspired project designed to share handmade crafts with those less fortunate. It is our hope to combine our love for crafting and desire to help others into a project to make a difference around the world."
from the Craft Hope website.

I participated in one of the other Craft Hope projects, dolls for an orphanage, and their new project was an easy one to jump on board with as well.

The good folks at Craft Hope set up an Etsy site this week to sell the hand-made products of the crafting community.
100% of the profits will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.

I encourage anyone out there to become involved if you can, either by donating something or buying one of the hand-made items at the new Etsy site for Craft Hope Haiti.