Community Outreach Committee
2017 Projects
Quilts for abused, neglected, and abandoned youth being served by the
Legal Aid Society of the Orange County Bar Association, Inc. and The Juvenile
Justice Center
Our year long project will be
making quilts for the youth being served by the Legal Aid Society and The
Juvenile Justice Center who are often neglected, abused, and abandoned. Quilts will be twin size with a modern
aesthetic and gender neutral color scheme.
These quilts will be an item of comfort that each youth can keep as they
are often in foster homes and working through difficult situations. The Legal Aid Society is currently serving
221 youth and our goal is to provide at least 100 quilts toward their need. The Committee’s contact is Donna Haynes with
the Legal Aid Society and we plan to have some of the youth visit the OMQG
during our Sew Days. The Community Outreach Committee challenges each guild
member to create at least one quilt for our 2017 project. We would like to present these quilts in either December or January.
ShareBear United
Our community outreach sewing
project is making handcrafted bears for children in hospitals as a token of
comfort to help children cope with challenges they face in the hospital. ShareBear United is a service project started
in South Florida in 2006 serving Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, and
Gainesville. Jackie Babb, founder of
ShareBear United and a medical student at the University of Central Florida
College of Medicine has a goal of sewing 1000 bears by July. OMQG is helping
Jackie and the UCF medical school students meet their goal by making these
simple and sweet bears the focus of our Sew Days through July. Look for teddy bear themed snacks and possibly
UCF students at our Sew Days!
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