Dollar Days & Sew Much Comfort

My friend Shelley recently told me about a great project going on in the blogger community involving two amazing organizations. It gave us a way to help give back and have some fun with a wonderful group of kids at the same time!

There is an organization called Sew Much Comfort which provides adaptive clothing at no cost to support the unique needs of our injured service members from all branches of the military and national guard. This clothing fits around medical devices and prosthetics and gives the service member and medical personnel ready access to injured areas. The adapted clothing allows injured service members to have their clothing appear the same as normal civilian attire; an attribute which helps facilitate a more natural and comfortable recovery. Without adaptive clothing the only option for the service member is a
hospital gown.

Through the volunteer efforts of seamstresses and donations of money, clothing and fabric, Sew Much Comfort has been able to provide over 75,000 pieces of adaptive clothing and comfort. If you or your readers are also interested in donating clothing, a list of needed items is available on the site and Sew Much Comfort specifically would love to receive t-shirts, long sleeve t-shirt or sweat shirts with logos of local sports teams in any area of the United States (size large is most needed). The wounded soldiers love having sport themed clothing but it is hard to get unless you live in that state. More information about donating and volunteering and requesting adaptive clothing may be found on the Sew Much Comfort website.

Another organization called Dollar Days has teamed up with Sew Much Comfort by providing thousands of dollars of clothing to them in honor of the National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans Week.

So how does it work? This is a project sponsored by bloganthropy.org. For every project officially enrolled (which this is one), Dollar Days will donate $50 worth of clothing to Sew Much Comfort. AND if we can get just TEN comments on this post, they will donate another $50. SO $100 of clothing will be heading to Sew Much Comfort for wounded veterans.

As for MY part in this, beyond blogging about it, I had to find a group of kids to make Valentine cards and deliver them to our local Veteran's hospital. Thankfully, Kennedy's teacher was more than happy to help out! :) Here are some pictures of the kids making their cards! I had to be creative with my angles since I had to keep the pictures non-identifying, but I still think they came out cute! :) The kids had a lot of fun and the cards will be dropped off at the hospital by Kennedy's teacher's father-in-law (who happens to have an appointment there) next week. Pictures are coming! :)

Thank you Dollar Days for helping our Soldiers & thank you Mrs. Reece for letting me invade your classroom for awhile and borrow your children! :)