More than Warmth was back in
Atlanta with
Bobbie Paul, the Atlanta chapter
of WAND- Women's Action for a
New Direction, making quilts in three area
schools.
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Meanwhile,
Mary Campbell was
organizing 120 students from a United Nations Project in Iowa,
Wisconsin,
and Indiana
to make quilts. Mary is an Iowa
Women for Peace member.
SENDING QUILTS
to-Jordan to Iraqi refugees with
Kathy
Kelly
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Three boxes of quilts went to
Jamaica to physically and mentally handicapped children, schools and
orphanages,with
Diana Kita.
www.mustardseed.com
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Four boxes of quilts were sent with
Kima
Douglas to Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and the
Limpopo
River, to children living out of the trash heaps in South Africa and the children at
http://
childrenoffire.
org/index.asp
From California,
More children from Uganda,
will benefit from the quilts made by Linda Speel, Linda Rake,
Linda Hlady, Barbara Wolcott, and many friends who joined together to make dozens of quilts.
http://www.peaceroots.org
"The students who drew the squares are so proud and delighted with their
accomplishments,"
teacher, Damarious Danovi
. Students from Ridgeway High sent
in a large quilt from Memphis and the international club of Ridgeway High, Memphis City Schools
"I hope you enjoy the quilt. I hope you will be warm for the whole winter. I
hope
now you are Happy not sad. This is from my heart to your heart. I hope you are
Better now." Love,
ANNA V.
-teacher Ms.Janet Booth
Brisbane School.
Brisbane, California
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More than Warmth attended the
KNOW TIBET benefit and made quilts this week for Tibet, and also Chengdu,
China.
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More than Warmth is an educational
project
for students of all ages to learn about world cultures. It fosters
understanding, knowledge and compassion among cultures through
nonviolent,
nonpolitical, and nonreligious means.
http://www.morethanwarmth.org/
Since 2001, quilts have been sent as gifts
from over 11,000 students to:
Afghanistan
Iraq
Iran
India
Pakistan
Israelis
and Palestinians
Jordan
Angola
Burkina Faso
Zambia
Swaziland
South Africa
Mauritania
Ghana
Uganda
China,
Tibetans
Nepal
Vietnam
Thailand
USA-Katrina Victims in Louisiana, Mississippi,
and
New Orleans
Genocide Victims in
Sudan and Chad
Rwanda, and
Indian Country-USA
Haiti
Cuba
Mexico
El Salvador
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Belize
Bolivia
Colombia
Venezuela
Ireland
Romania
North Korea
Togo
Syria
Niger
Associations:
http://www.afghans4tomorrow.com/
http://www.damanga.org/
http://www.freetheslaves.net/
http://www.onehearttibet.net
http://www.inamay.com/
http://www.peaceroots.org/
http://www.plenty.org/
More than Warmth is moving to The Farm
Our new address :
MTW
110 Fifth Road
Summertown, Tennessee 38483
We will be in transition for a bit. email: info@morethanwarmth.org
please connect before mailing a quilt or quilt squares.
Thank you all
More than Warmth volunteers.
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Quilts were made at the Global Education Center in Nashville. The Global Educational Center celebrates culture and
biodiversity offers
materials, workshops and support for teachers in Tennessee. http://www.global
educationcenter.net
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Nicaragua
photos compliments of
Casta Calderon Heren
Aftermath of Hurricane Felix
Hello Judith,
Hope everything is fine with you.
I went back to Nicaragua to do some work on the Atlantic Cost, Father
Melesio and I stayed at Puerto Cabezas. We traveled everyday to the
community
of Santa Marta where we are building 10 houses.
We also visited the community of Sagni Laya where we delivered five of
the blankets. We decided
to go directly and give five of the blankets to families that have
small babies, and are severly affected by hurricane Felix which had
struck in
September.
Father Melesio is delivering the rest of the blankets in Santa Marta,
another community on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua where nearly
all of the resident's homes had been completely destroyed.
Judith, this was my first visit to the Atlantic
Coast and I was so sad to see how people
are having to survive in such poor, miserable conditions. I'm still
trying to make the mental change after I returned to here. I really
want to keep
helping these people. Most of them speak spanish but in Sagni Laya was
difficult because most the woman and children speak mainly/only
miskito.Thank you for all your support.
With love,
Casta
castacalderon@hotmail.com
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One student's comments while making quilts this spring-"This is the best
thing we have done all year."
Fifth grade student,
Dickson, Tennessee.
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