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Ayuda Foundation gets fabrics, sewing equipment for Chuuk Women’s Council
The Ayuda Foundation had a table at the recent Guam Quilt Show, held Saturday, March 22, 2014, at Guam Shopping Center where donors could deliver fabrics and sewing notions. The donations, more than 30 boxes, will be delivered to Chuuk’s Women’s Council.
Chuuk State is grappling with a high birth rate and low school attendance. Chuuk’s political and social leaders wish to teach women skills that will increase their earning ability, broaden their learning skills, and enable them to lift themselves and their families above the poverty level, to become business owners, to become taxpayers, to become thoughtful voters, and to become leaders in their own community.
Kiki Stinnet, president of the Chuuk Women’s Council, has received a grant to purchase sewing machines, has a building to house the training, but materials and fabric are so expensive in FSM that she has requested The Ayuda Foundation to gather excess fabrics and sewing equipment, i.e., bias tape, curtains, drapes, fabric scraps, flat fabric, gathered skirts, lace pieces, lining materials, needles, pin cushions, ribbon, ric rac, scissors, sewing baskets/boxes, sewing machine needles, straight pins, tape measures, thimbles, thread, and transparent tape.
The Ayuda Foundation declares a success for its first Operation Sewing Basket, a program to provide sewing fabrics and equipment to teach sewing skills to young women in Chuuk. More than 30 boxes of fabrics, lace, ric rac, thread, zippers, needles, thimbles, thread, pins, instruction books, quilting magazines, etc. were donated during the quilting exhibition. All of the boxed items will be carried to Chuuk via Matson Navigation Inc. through the courtesy of Triple B freight forwarding company. Neither company will assess charges to either the Ayuda Foundation nor to the Chuuk Women’s Council; all items will be donated without charge to the end users. (Ayuda Foundation)
