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"Very beautiful pictures. Looks like your project has traveled far.
i've been researching about colonialism in Africa for a few
hours... the quilts remind me that American goods in Africa can be
good."
-an UNCA student
Summer 2005 - Quilts are sent to a clinic in Umtata that takes care of the poorest of the poor and The House of Resurrection Haven, an orphanage in the Eastern Cape Region - Port Elizabeth,
SouthAfrica. Read the testimonial.
From Mercy High, San
Francisco, California to Soweto, South Africa:
Eli Gifford's class quilt, Mesa High, Santa
Rosa, California was sent to South Africa.
Sent quilts to an orphanage
in Zambia to children with AIDS. Distributed them at a site for HIV/AIDs orphans who spend their days at the school and live in extended families, usually with grandmothers.

"Children are the key to the elimination of conflict."
- Romeo Dallaire
Two star general in the UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda, 1994, witnessed the death of 800,000 people in the genocidal conflict. |