The More Than Warmth Story
FIRST QUILTS & LETTERS
The first children’s quilts and letters were given to a friendship center in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 8, 2002. Letters written by students were translated and shared with hundreds of children touring the center.
CULTURAL CENTER RECEIVES QUILT
In June, 2002, a cultural center in Bethlehem, Palestine displayed a quilt created by American children with a poem expressing hope for peace in the Middle East.
WARM QUILTS — BIG HEARTS
Quilts have also been given to schools for girls, orphanages, daycare centers, schools for the deaf, street children, trauma centers and refugees.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARTICIPATES
Students at Cook Elementary in Atlanta, Georgia chose to make quilts for children in Afghanistan and Iraq.
VIOLENCE & THE NEED FOR CHANGE
Students are able to discuss how violence in the world affects them. While learning about the civil wars in Africa, students acknowledged the violence and need for change in their own neighborhoods. African American students of all ages in East Nashville, TN sewed quilts to send to areas of Africa.
THANK YOU
May we reach farther into our hearts and souls to help others. Thank you, for supporting this project to teach about caring and compassion.