Community Service Projects

Quilters' Connection’s primary community service project has been the production of comfort quilts. These quilts are made by members and then donated to organizations assisting the homeless, the ill, the elderly, and children. Among these have been Sandra's Lodge, the House of Hope, Project Hope, Rosie’s Place, A Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Help for Abused Women and Their Children, Boston City Hospital, Northshore Children’s Hospital, and Boston area veterans’ hospitals. Recently our focus has widened to include making dolls, mittens, and nap quilts for school groups. Our most recent projects are listed below. Click on the links to see pictures if they are available.

 2005-2006Comfort Quilts for victims of Hurricane Katrina in Houston, Baton Rouge LA, Mobile AL, New Iberia LA and Keene TX
Locally, quilts were donated toTransition House for Victims of Domestic Violence and to Finex House in Jamaica Plain (A shelter for battered women and children)
   
 2004-2005

Comfort Quilts for Horizons for Homeless Children, a daycare center in Dorchester, Pernet Family Health Services in Worcester, and Missions of Charity in Dorchester, a homeless shelter for women and children

   
 2002-2003Comfort Quilts for veterans
   
 2001-2002Comfort Quilts Donated to Help for Abused Women and Children and the Children's Hospital of the North Shore
   
 2000-2001Comfort Quilts for children at Sandra’s Lodge in Waltham, MA
   
 1999-2000Funds raised through the sale of comfort quilts was donated to the Cape Cod Center for Women in Falmouth, MA
   
 1998-1999Comfort Dolls donated to the Northshore Children’s Hospital and to Help for Abused Women and Children on the North Shore