HEALING THE HEART QUILT PROJECT

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HEALING THE HEART QUILT PROJECT

• Bringing warmth and healing to needy children in
  Afghanistan, China and Russia

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel November 30, 2001
How it begana heartbreaking story
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Cold, hungry, abandoned...
Allaudin Orphanage Kabul, Afghanistan
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...many are moved to help
Brookfield Academy
Pilgrim Church
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Fabric is collected and quilts are made...
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Local school children give of their hearts and
hands
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Each quilt gets a big red heart with a message of
love
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Quilts are packed for shipping
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Pat Karzai of Afghans for Civil Society, ships
the quilts and arranges delivery to the orphanage
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and to a needy village
...protection against the long hard winter
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The first quilt at the orphanage goes to this
little hydrocephalic boy
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The Kabul Orphanage, July 2004
Three years later.
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Happy children...
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Playing, learning, being kids!
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Becoming beautiful young people!
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What a difference!
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Over 900 quilts shipped to AFGHANISTANas of
NOVEMBER 2007
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The project continues...
Susan Summers has made over 700 quilts as well as
polar bear dolls, caps, scarves and mittens.
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Local school children write letters to accompany
the bears
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Letters from children at Oliver Wendell Holmes
School
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Letters from the heart!
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Sandy Destrampe of the Childrens Hope Network
expands the project to include Russian and
Chinese orphans
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and backpacks with hygiene kits for Kabuls
street orphans
as well as knit caps, scarves, warm fleece
mittens and 180lbs of school supplies
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Our miracle workers!
Donna Kirchner
Susan Summers
Sandy Destrampe and the Childrens Hope Network
Pat Karzai and Afghans for Civil Society
Crocker Stephenson, Mrs. Ali Jalali, Rangina
Hamadi, American Embassy in Kabul
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...and so many others who gave from the HEART!
General and Mrs. Pace, Heidi Jenkins, Milwaukee
Public School Recreation Dept. ,Marc Gold, Abdul
Satar, Nancy Ziegler, General and Mrs. Meyers,
Patt Maney, Jackie Burns, West Allis Public
Schools, US Armed Forces on Afghanistan,
Brookfield Academy, Pilgrim UCC of Grafton

• THANK YOU!