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New Hamburg Mennonite Relief Sale & Quilt Auction, 29/30 May, 2009.
The term relief quilting is used in the USA for quilts that are made either for sale to raise money for a charity, or to be distributed directly to people in need. Both the Mennonite and Lutheran Churches in the USA, for example, have programmes whereby quilters throughout the country regularly gather (normally monthly) to make quilts.
In this way, in 2013, Lutheran World Relief (USA) received almost 500,000 quilts made by congregations for distribution to refugees, AIDS hospices, victims of natural disasters and people living in poverty throughout the developing world.
Source: KEUNING-TICHELAAR, An and Lynn KAPLANIAN-BULLER (2005). Passing on the Comfort: The War, the Quilts, and the Women Who Made A Difference, Intercourse (PA): Good Books.
Digital source of illustration (retrieved 30 June 2016).
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