Got Quilts?

Got Quilts?

Ten years ago Cathy Alaimo, SSJ, was asked to consider making quilts for Griffin's Friends, a Baystate Medical Center organization whose goal is "to ease the hardships of children in treatment for cancer and the families that love and support them."  Since that request a group of SSJs and their friends have met approximately nine times a year to create quilts for this group of kids.

The project began modestly with a couple of portable sewing machines on the kitchen table at the home of a group of the sisters.  It is now housed in a well-equipped craft room at Mont Marie in Holyoke.  The initial enthusiasm and sense of purpose has never flagged and under Sr. Cathy's able, patient, and encouraging leadership a cheery, child-sized quilt has been tucked into a backpack along with other expressions of care and given to a child.  This has occurred hundreds of times over the last decade.

This endeavor does move us in the direction of "uniting neighbor with neighbor" as we enjoy being with one another and working together to ease the hardships of children in treatment for cancer.