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Craft Class Gives Back Again

January 31, 2012

This Christmas was the third year in a row that the Bridges’s Craft Class has donated holiday gifts to Safe Haven Family Shelter, the only shelter-to-housing program of its kind in middle Tennessee that accepts entire homeless families. 

Craft Class gift giving began three years ago when the group wanted to learn how to quilt.  They chose a small project – sewing quilted Christmas stockings – and enjoyed it so much, they decided to donate the stockings to a worthy cause.  That worthy cause became Safe Haven Family Shelter.  When the class realized the needs of families residing at Safe Haven, they started collecting gifts to fill the hand-made stockings.

Unfortunately, the number of families at Safe Haven has continued to increase in recent years.  To help meet the new demand, the Craft Class asked the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) Nashville Chapter to help provide items to the Safe Haven families. This year, Bridges’s Craft Class made as many hand-made scarves and hats as they could, and with help from HLAA, purchased additional scarves, hats, gloves, toiletries, baby quilts and toys for youth of all ages. Bridges would like to thank HLAA for its help in making this year’s Craft Class donations possible!

For more information on Safe Haven shelter, visit www. safehaven.org.

Are you Deaf or hard of hearing and interested in joining Bridges’s Craft Class? Contact Donicé Kaufman at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for more information.