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The 2016 'Threads of Life' Quilt
The Threads of Life quilt is much more than layers of fabric stitched together – it is the stories of mothers, fathers, children, siblings, friends and neighbors. These stories, your stories, they resonate; they teach, heal, and inspire. Your stories touch people in such a personal way and help us to educate those unfamiliar with donation and transplantation.
If you are interested in making a square, but you don’t know how, we have two quilt workshops currently scheduled in Portland on January 17 and February 21, click HERE to RSVP. We hope to schedule another workshop outside of the Portland region soon.
If you have submitted a square in the past, then please consider doing so again. For every quilt that you contribute to, you are giving these stories another chance to carry on a legacy, to help heal those who have lost someone, to give hope to those who wait for the gift of life.
We here at Donate Life Northwest are also happy to help assist you in creating a quilt square using photos or digital images of yourself or a loved one. To learn more – email Matt at webbema@ohsu.edu.
This year’s submission deadline is March 9, 2016. Learn how to submit your square HERE.
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Learn to Share Your Story!
Write Around Portland (WRAP) has a mission: to change lives through the power of writing. What happens when you team that together with our mission to save lives and improve health through the promotion of organ, eye, and tissue donation? You get an amazing opportunity to do a 9-week creative writing workshop in Portland from February 18 through April 14.
We’ll be bringing folks together once a week to explore, share, and write together about their experiences on donation and transplantation. We’re looking for 8-12 people who want to be part of this great opportunity. We’ll provide high quality, skillfully facilitated writing workshops in a safe, accessible and respectful environment for people to write and share in community.
The workshops will primarily take place on Thursday nights from 6-8pm with dinner and all materials provided (bus fare can be provided too). Two of the offered sessions will be on a Saturday. Although you do not need to attend all nine sessions, the more you put into it, the more you get out of it. Although the workshops are not counseling or support groups, participants say that the process is therapeutic, healing, and empowering. Interested? Click HERE.
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Registered Donors: Oregon 2,352,269 / Washington: 4,666,499
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