Thank you SO much to Nicola and her mum Wendy who packed 231 care bags for our Mother's Day project - not even a power cut could stop them! It was an even kinder gesture given Wendy was visiting from overseas and willing to give up a few precious hours of her holiday....
Thank you so much to Lisa Balm, who has been working her way through a pile of our donated wool to make some gorgeous goodies for our winter projects. Check out these wonderful warm woollies - we them! Thank you Lisa!
Thank you to the lovely Kathryn Benier for spending an afternoon helping sort gifts for our Mother's Day packs. They are going to women fleeing domestic violence situations. Kathryn has also acted as a courier for us – bringing hundreds of handsewn gifts from our...
We've had an incredible donation of 1500 handsewn tissue pack covers for our upcoming Mother's Day care packs for women around Australia in shelters fleeing domestic violence. A huge thanks to Di, Gaewyn, Cass and the Sewing for Charity Australia team for such an...
This festive season, thanks to all the support we have received, around 3500 Australians will have a gift from the m.a.d.woman foundation. That includes 650 women and kids in domestic violence shelters, 2000 kids in hospital, 800 who are homeless and struggling and 50...
What did we do today? We took around 800 gifts to the Sacred Heart Mission for their Christmas Day lunch celebration for 400 people doing it tough and to help stock their resource centre going into the new year. Our boxes included toys, toiletries, clothing, Xmas...
Meet Jenny Marshall - our Volunteer of the Year! We are incredibly grateful for the support of the many people who contribute time, money and skills to the m.a.d.woman foundation. Jenny has given hours and hours to us, sewing and distributing beanies for homeless kids...
Today was a pretty special day. The m.a.d.woman foundation delivered more than 200 of our hand sewn bibs and burp cloths to go to some very disadvantaged babies through our friends at the Royal Women's Hospital.The babies are supported by hospital units for women with...
We took to the streets tonight to give a little warmth to more than 120 homeless people freezing through icy winter Melbourne nights. Thanks to the amazing work of some of our tireless volunteers, we were so pleased to hand out dozens of carefully handmade beanies to...
The m.a.d.woman foundation has done our best to spread some Christmas in July cheer today at lunches for people supported by the Prahran and Sacred Heart Missions. Tonight more of our handmade crackers will go out through the St Vinnies soup van through Melbourne,...