Sewing Patches - Sowing Progress: La Rontonde

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Newspaper

We got interviewed today!! By we I mean Sewing Patches - Sowing Progress. Cat and Ashley represented us and told them our story. It went very well and if you parlez Francais you can pick up a copy of La Rontonde on January 31st, 2011 around campus or checkout the website. Cat also has an interview lined up with The Fulcrum our english campus paper. Fantastic!

Who we are...

Sewing Patches, Sowing Progress is a social action project run by a group of Faculty of Education students. It aims to combine the local and global community through sewing and donating. This is done by taking donated fabric, cutting squares and creating quilts. People are able to donate money and through their donation they are able to ‘buy’ a quilt square. When people ‘buy’ a quilt square the group commits to making that square. When a whole quilt is ‘bought’ the group makes a quilt and the quilts are then in turn donated to the local homeless. The money that is donated is given to a local NGO, Drombaya, which is a microfinance organization that gives microloans to those in need, in Cameroon. The quilts help in Ottawa, the money helps in Africa; a local and global connection.