Thank you to our lovely friends from the Mitcham Charity Knitting Group for another fantastic donation of 250 beanies and scarves for our winter care packs. Your ongoing support is so appreciated and it’s perfect timing. We are so grateful to every single person who...
Please help with the Pencil Case Project
The m.a.d.woman Foundation is doing our Pencil Case Project again! We’re supporting 1000 Australian kids in foster care and facing other challenges. With the help of some amazing volunteers, we’re working hard to sew 1000 pencil bags and get them filled with brand new...
Some awesome sewing stats!
Another day, another 48 metres (!) of fabric being made into drawstring bags at the m.a.d.woman Foundation HQ! In the past few weeks we’ve used nearly 10km of overlocker thread too, not to mention hundreds of metres of drawstring threads (and pins, we’ve needed so...
150 more care packs have gone out!
Another 75 of our beautiful care packs have gone out to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) this week. They are joining another 75 we sent last week for some deserving women. We’re so proud to have distributed 2575 stunning care packs in the past two weeks!...
We are helping 700 women RizeUp
We sent 700 of our care packs to RizeUp to distribute to women fleeing domestic violence. By working together we can make even more of a difference. Thanks to everyone who contributed
AHEPA helps with generous donation
So incredibly grateful to AHEPA Australia for a beautiful Mother and Daughter fundraising event supporting the m.a.d.woman Foundation yesterday! There was such incredible generosity in the room resulting in an incredible $12,000 being raised for us! The Ahepa Athena...
Our Mother Day efforts – 2500 care packs with 52,500 gifts
WE DID IT!! Our incredible teams got 52,500 gifts into care packs for Mother’s Day 2500 women around Australia fleeing domestic violence. This was our biggest packing day ever!! Our beautiful handsewn bags were filled with a variety of new and handmade gifts. They...
Help needed for our Mother’s Day care packs
WE NEED YOUR HELP! We are soooo close - please help us get our Mother’s Day project over the line. We had a HUGE day today sorting more than 45,000 gifts for our care packs for 2500 women around Australia fleeing domestic violence. We are packing on Wednesday to send...
Metro again makes a difference
Just WOW!! One of our amazing board members (and her team) has done an incredible collection for our 2500 care packs for Mother’s Day for women fleeing domestic violence. They tripled their original goal of 600 gifts and are still going! Thank you Metro Property...
Our gift collection tops tens of thousands!
WOW! Our collection of gifts for 2500 women fleeing domestic violence is growing to the tens of thousands of items! It’s incredible! Now we need some extra help - to fund the freight of our packs. It costs around $25 to send a box for 20-25 women. We’ve had an amazing...