- 'More Than Warmth' Building Hope Caring Compassion
- The More Than Warmth quilt project provides a simple but direct way to help children understand and respond to the world
around them. 
- http://morethanwarmth.org/
- Mission:
- More Than Warmth is an educational project for students of all ages to learn about world cultures. It fosters understanding, knowledge, and compassion between cultures through nonviolent, nonpolitical, and nonreligious means.
We create a forum allowing American students a place to process international events. While helping to create a growing awareness of world cultures, students also learn about regions of strife and conflict in the world. More Than Warmth offers students a chance to effect positive change in their world.
New photos have been added to the Afghanistan and African pages.
The first children’s quilts and letters were given to a friendship center in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 8, 2002. Letters written by students were translated and shared with hundreds of children touring the center. Quilts have also been given to schools for girls, orphanages, daycare centers, schools for the deaf, street children, and trauma centers.
In June, 2002, a cultural center in Bethlehem displayed a quilt created by American children with a poem expressing hope for peace in the Middle East. Students are also able to discuss how violence in the world affects them. For example, this summer, African American students of all ages in East Nashville sewed quilts to send to areas of Africa. While learning about the civil wars in Africa, the students acknowledged the violence and need for change in their own neighborhoods. Students at Cook Elementary in Atlanta, Georgia chose to make quilts for children in Afghanistan and Iraq. - For more information Please Visit the 'More Than Warmth' site at: http://morethanwarmth.org/
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