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Quilting and charity work go together like needle and thread

For Catherine Sloan, quilting is a way to give back to the community. For the past year Sloan and a group of 30 women from across Greater Sudbury and the Nipissing District have designed, sewed and assembled 50 quilts of all shapes and sizes to raise funds for NEO Kids Foundation at Health Sciences North.
After inheriting boxes of fabric from a friend Barbara last spring, Sloan turned to her friends, a network of quilters from across the region, to collaborate on what would be their largest project to date.
She organized the material into patterns and made kits for each of the quilters.
“Every time I turned around there were people who wanted to help,” said Sloan. “Not everyone has thousands of dollars to put towards a charity. This is a way they can be part of something and make a difference.”
It can take up to 80 hours to make one quilt and some quilters have been known to spend six months on a project. So, each of the women involved in the NEO Kids quilting project focused on a specific stage of the process.
“It really was a group effort,” said Kelly Schroeder of North Bay.
The women say they recognize the importance of establishing a centre for specialized pediatric care and services in northeastern Ontario. And some of them know first-hand the challenge of having to travel to southern Ontario for specialized pediatric health care.
Bonnie Leonard of Astorville, Ont. wants more than anything to see a centre for pediatric care located in her region.
When her daughter needed to access services at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, rather than travel down south, clinical health care was provided to her through telemedicine. Leonard said that while her daughter’s needs were met, the service was less than adequate.
“To have services we could access in the north, to travel to Sudbury and meet a specialist face-to-face, would have made a huge difference,” she said.
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