These are pictures of the American Mothers/ Mesa Oaks resident's first humanitarian workshop for the month of June in Covina, California. The flannel blankets that we are making for distressed, preemie and babies from struggling families are so.......cute! We bought some new and slightly used onsies and sleepers and washed and ironed them. Then we put the three items in a gallon size Ziploc baggie with a note enclosed saying "Lovingly made by the American Mothers and the Mesa Oaks residents".
We had such a blast. The neighbors were so grateful that someone who knew what she was doing could organize these workshops for them. They expressed that they always wanted to do something humanitarian, but didn't know how to go about doing it. We worked the scheduled 1 1/2 hours but no one wanted to leave. We ended up working 3 hours. Some of us will be going on a field trip to the Los Angeles County Hospital where these packets will be donated to. Next week is our 2nd workshop. The board of directors for our neighborhood are now talking about donating to humanitarian efforts on an annual basis. I think that when we put forth the effort to organize things that people will do what ever they can to support it. There are a lot of good people in the world.
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