One of our volunteers, Bev, has sent us another amazing parcel of pencil case bags - on top of tens and tens and tens already! Thank you!! We are edging closer to our target of 1000 for Australian kids in foster care. We’re filling them with school supplies like we...
Meet some of our makers
Joy and Deb from the Hamilton Community House have been sewing up a storm for us! An extra special thanks to Joy who has literally sewn hundreds of items in the past few months. We are incredibly grateful to you and everyone else associated with your community house -...
Sew much thread goes into our donations!
A lot of love - and a lot of thread, pins, fabric, clips and time goes into our charity sewing! Another empty 5km spool on the overlocker! On the left is how it starts.... Another 50+metres of fabric is currently under the needle... thank you immensely to Glynis for...
Happy for our ‘helpdesk’!
One of the toughest parts of being a charity is not having an IT Helpdesk. We are incredibly grateful to the very patient, kind and highly skilled Fabian from realestate.com.au for his technical help and support! Thank you!!
Officeworks gives us 4875 reasons to be thankful!
Just when we thought it couldn’t get any better, the final tally came through from the awesome team at Officeworks Chadstone - we have 4875 reasons to be thankful!! Here’s the incredibly kind and generous Matt handing over the news to our CEO Melina Schamroth, our...
Sew many thanks to Sewing for Charity
A HUGE thanks to the team from Sewing for Charity Australia for two more boxes of goodies for our upcoming projects to support 1000 children in hospitals and 1000 kids in foster care and facing other challenges. Your ongoing support is so gratefully received- thanks...
Close knit group helps again!
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!...