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The Kenya Quilt Guild needs your help!
We have an exhibition scheduled for the weekend of May 10 at the Village Market. The price for the hall rental has risen almost 25% over what we paid for our last show. We are looking for sponsors to help offset this increased rental as well as to help cover our other expenses. An increase in entry fees for exhibitors will help, but it cannot cover the total shortfall.
If you can see your way clear to help us raise our goal of 50,000/= (about USD 600 or € 460 or £ 390), please contact us immediately, using the contact form in the sidebar at left.
Many thanks for your kindness and generosity!
The Kenya Quilt Guild has been involved in helping women with fistula for the last few years. Surgical procedures are expensive, so our ability to assist has been limited. Seeking a way to stretch our ability to help a bit further, KQG member Gretchen Sanders-Mwaura has done some research on the subject. She says she likes very much the program operated by AMREF:
AMREF have a very extensive outreach program in Kenya and were extremely helpful when I went to visit. They will place any donation where the donor wishes – towards operations, education, training, or equipment – and follow-up is given. I have also been invited to attend one of their camps! I had a very good feeling about this program and how the donated funds were being used.
Help us help AMREF, won’t you, please?
A call has gone out for comfort quilts for Japan, where so many people are having a hard time coping with recent disasters. If you have a quilt to donate, or are willing to make one or more quickly, you can find out more about it at Taniwa: Patchwork Quilt Tsushin. You will also want to see the magazine’s website in English.
If you live in Kenya, and you want to contribute a quilt or quilts, bring along your donations to, or state your intentions at, the meeting on Thursday, March 24. We can then discuss how best to send our quilts off to Japan.
