Fleece & Thank You, a Michigan-based non-profit organization, is dedicated to providing connection, comfort, and hope through its programs, services, and materials to children facing illness and their families supporting them.
They host over 400 blanket-making events every year to help achieve their goal of making 30,000 fleece blankets one blanket for every child in MI that goes into the hospital for inpatient treatments. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฟ ๐ด๐ผ๐ฎ๐น ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐น๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ต๐ผ๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐น๐ผ๐ฟ๐ณ๐๐น, ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐ณ๐น๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ธ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ผ ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ. Their warehouse is where all of their behind-the-scenes work happens.
VT Seva Detroit Volunteers got their first opportunity on August 16th, 2021, got this opportunity to help them from 3 pm-5 pm at their warehouse. Around 8 volunteers did these tasks.
1. Prepping their blanket kits
2. Quality check on those blankets
3. Folding the blankets after a final check
4. Wrapped them up with a plastic wrap
5. Packed them in kits for final delivery to hospitals.
6. Coloring the thank you cards that they were doing for Hug buddy postcards for mental health people that is for View spire organization.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ.
๐ฌ๐ผ๐๐๐ต ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ต๐ฎ,๐ฉ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ธ๐๐ต๐ฎ , ๐ก๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป,๐๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ถ๐๐ต๐ถ
๐๐ฑ๐๐น๐ ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ด๐ฎ ,๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ, ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ต๐ฎ
VT Seva Detroit Volunteers got their second opportunity on November 20th, 2021 to help them 9 am -12 pm at their warehouse. Around 12 volunteers did these tasks.
This is our second visit there and we really loved helping them and being part of their kind wonderful cause.
Our volunteers did various tasks such as
1. Cutting the strip cloth
2. Hot pressing labels on each blanket
3. Bundling all the blankets neatly and stack in covers & boxes
4. Folding blankets
5. Organizing warehouse blankets storage boxes finally cleaned their work area.
On a whole we all worked on 1000 blankets which are ready for a child to use in a hospital
Video Compilation of photos link:
VT Seva Detroit thank Fleece &Thankyou coordinators for giving us these opportunities and We are looking forward to provide our services to Fleece&Thankyou in 2022 as well whenever an opportunity arrives.
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