Sew Good

Featured Sew Good Project

Eastern European Russian Orphanages Project

EEROP, which began as a group on Ravelry, connects crafters to established relief organizations to provide handmade items to orphans in Eastern Europe and Russia.

What you can do: Visit the EEROP Campaigns page to learn more about current opportunities.

More Sew Good Projects

Days for Girls

Days for Girls International provides washable feminine hygiene kits worldwide for women who would otherwise go without. We work to raise public awareness, educate regarding preventable disease, and advocate for policies as we partner with NGO's with programs that are saving lives, helping to keep girls in school and improving women's futures.

What you can do: Organize a sewing event, host a garden party, or join an expedition.

Sewing Hope

Sewing Hope supports existing African grassroots organizations to develop income-building opportunities.

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Dress a Girl Around the World

Dress a Girl Around the World volunteers transform pillowcases, sheets, and donated fabric remnants into dresses for impoverished girls. In the last year they have delivered over 12,000 dresses to 34 countries.

What you can do: Help them meet their goal of 50,000 dresses this year. Numerous ways to help are listed on their website.

Action Kivu

Action Kivu provides Eastern Congo's victims of violence with an opportunity to rebuild their lives, in part through teaching them to sew, knit, and embroider as a means of livelihood.

What you can do: Make a tax-deductible donation.

Iraqi Bundles of Love II

IBOL collects and distributes bundles of fabric, sewing notions, and yarn to Iraqi families in need.

What you can do: Donate bundles of fabric and notions.

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Little Dresses for Africa

Little Dresses for Africa distributes simple pillowcase dresses to orphanages in Central Africa to spread hope to little girls.

What you can do: spread the word, sew dresses, donate money or materials.

Stitching Hope

Stitching Hope exists to raise funds to send to Haiti in
response to the January 12, 2010 earthquake that
devastated Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas. Money made by selling handmade quilts and other sewn items goes to Heifer International to use in post-quake rebuilding and recovery efforts.

What you can do: donate a quilt or other sewn item, donate supplies, or buy something in the shop.

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Morsbags

Make reusable cloth bags and keep plastic bags out of our landfills and away from marine wildlife.

What you can do: make a bag, join a pod, spread the word.

Green Bag Lady

The Green Bag Lady team makes fabric shopping bags from recycled, donated, or unwanted fabric and gives them to people for free if they promise to use them instead of paper or plastic.

What you can do: make a bag, donate fabric.

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Project Linus

Project Linus is comprised of hundreds of local chapters and thousands of volunteers across the United States. Project Linus distributes gifts of handmade blankets and afghans, providing a sense of love and security to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need.

What you can do: become a blanketeer, give your time, make a donation, start a chapter.

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Wrap Them in Love

Wrap Them in Love collects donated quilts and
distributes them to children around the world.

What you can do: make quilts, donate funds, have a quilting bee, donate supplies.

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Sister Hope

Sister Hope provides hygiene kits, including reusable menstrual pads, to young girls and women in developing countries. 

What you can do: Make a donation, buy from their store, spread the word, and volunteer. Learn more by visiting Sister Hope.