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Comforters and blankets

MCC is asking for donations of 10,000 heavy comforters and 10,000 flat sheets as part of its response to the Haiti earthquake. Sheets will be used as bedding and mosquito netting. (MCC is asking for heavy comforters rather than blankets for the Haiti response.) Thank you for joining this effort. MCC sends comforters and blankets to hospitals, refugee camps, orphanages, and locations experiencing disasters. In the last several years, shipments were sent to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Palestine, Russia, Serbia, Sudan and Ukraine.
 
Comforter specifications
  • Use new or nearly new material
  • Single/twin-size preferred (approx. 152cm x 203 cm / 60in x 80in) Double/full-size accepted (approx. 208cm x 228cm / 82in x 90in)
  • Winter weight are requested for the Haiti earthquake response (please use quilt batting)
    Knotted with crochet cotton (not more than 10-15cm / 4-8in apart)
  • Get children involved: use fabric markers or fabric crayons to draw pictures on blank muslin or solid fabric comforter tops

 

Sheets
  • NEW flat sheets (For Haiti, please use double,queen or king-size sheets in light colors. Sheets will also be used as mosquito netting and light colors are less attractive to mosquitoes.)

 

Drop off completed comforters at one of the drop-off locations in Canada or the U.S.