Connor’s Africa Service Trip

To get more donations in order to meet my fundraising goal, I’m going to be going door to door around the area in the upcoming weeks. I’ve made the following flyer to hand out:

One of my service goals for 2007 is to make 50 quilts to send to Zambia, Africa (where I’ll be going in July) through Mothers Without Borders. I got the idea from a family service project over this past Christmas break. Our family made two quilts while I was there (to also be sent to Africa) and I caught the quilting bug.

The frame, clamps, needles, and pins cost about $50. Once those basic supplies are purchased, each quilt costs about $13 for the supplies to assemble ($5 for two sheets, $7 for the polyester filler, and about a buck worth of yarn).

Here’s a time-lapse of the last quilt I made (with some much appreciated help from the lovely Chantelle). This is quilt number 8/50.

These types of projects are easy to do, relatively cheap, and a great way to relax after a long day (you’ll see me watching 24 and BYUTV in some of the pictures).

Wanna help?

July will never come too soon.

I’m going to be heading to Zambia on a three week volunteer service trip this July. Sweet!

I’ll be heading over with Mothers Without Borders. You might remember them from a service project [2] I did through them in September.

Find out more on the about page, and please (please!) help me reach my fundraising goal of $5000!

I’ll be using this separate blog as a location to post updates, track progress on my fundraising goal (wanna help?), and eventually post stories and journal updates while I’m over in Africa.