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Holiday helpers

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....

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Lisa’s lovely loot

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!

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Kathryn’s kindness

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...

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A gift not to be sneezed at!

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...

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A special Mission

A special Mission

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...

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Our Volunteer of the Year

Our Volunteer of the Year

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...

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Beanies for homeless

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...

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