Quilts Beyond Borders is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which reaches out to under-served children, mainly orphans, across the world to provide a handmade quilt and spread love and hope.
Over 140 million children in the world today have lost one or both parents. Quilts Beyond Borders was born in March 2007 with the desire to reach out to these children. We originally focused on Ethiopia where in 5 years we delivered over 1,000 quilts to orphans. Sub-Saharan Africa is home to an estimated 50 million orphaned children, and in Ethiopia alone, there are currently an estimated 4.8 million orphans.
While we continue our work with Ethiopia, we have expanded to provide quilts and the comfort and love associated with them to children in at least 25 countries. Since 2009 we have also provided thousands of quilts to people in need in Haiti, Japan, Thailand, India, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Uganda, Burundi, Cameroon, Romania, Russia, Mexico, Kenya, USA, Jordan, Gaza, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Ukraine, Rwanda, Zambia, Peru and Greece, and we continue to distribute quilts to those in need living in other places where the warmth of a quilt is needed at night. Currently, our priorities include Syrian refugees, and children and elders living in the Navajo Nation. We work with vetted partner organizations to distribute donated quilts and we provide quilts to those in need without regard to race, nationality, religion, or grade point average. For more information on how we select who will receive our quilts, please read this recent article: How Do We Choose
Quilts Beyond Borders retains the ultimate authority to use contributions made to us at our discretion for purposes consistent with our purpose. Quilts Beyond Borders operates solely for charitable purposes. We will provide quilts to poor or underprivileged people throughout the world. The purpose of the quilts is to provide warmth and comfort. Priority for recipients will be children, especially those living without family homes.
Our blog regularly features the beautiful quilts we receive and distribute, inspiring profiles of our supporters, and heartwarming stories of the recipients around the world. To respect privacy, we are not always able to show photos of quilt deliveries but we try to share the joy with our readers as much as possible! To receive updates, click “Follow” on the right-hand side of the screen.
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Our volunteer quilters and board members are dispersed throughout the US. If you would like to donate, sew or volunteer for us, please read this information first about Quilt Dimensions and Criteria, and we would love to hear from you with additional questions at: quiltsbeyondborders@gmail.com
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Hello Ladies, I have a box full of completed quilts for you. I received them to Longarm, and a friend of mine did the binding. I put them in a box in a corner of my studio and promptly forgot about them! That was at the beginning of the summer!!! So, long story short, please tell me where to send them, I seem to have misplaced the paperwork. Uggg 🙂 Blessings to you and your mission!
Hugs Nan
Nan Fishpaw
1145 Oxbow Road
Wimauma, Fl. 33598
813-633-7348
Hi Nan,
Thank you and your friend for doing the quilting and binding. The address to mail them to is:
Noreen Fling
448 Waterville Street
Raleigh, NC 27603
The children will appreciate these quilts.
Carolyn
I’m interested in mailing in some quilt tops. One of your links mentions including a label on the quilt top. Can you please explain what type of label I should include? Thanks.
Hi,
The label is just a small square or rectangle of fabric (somewhere around 4″ X 6″) with:
Quilts Beyond Borders
Made by: [Your Name] (You can include a short note)
(Leave room for the longarmer to put her name if she wants)
Belongs to: [The recipient child’s name will go here)
I have found that the Ultra Fine Sharpie works well to write the info, and it doesn’t wash out. Or, you can machine embroider if you have that capability.
Thanks,
Carolyn
I would like to send two quilts Out Monday but do not have a address I live in southeast Indiana
Hi Donna! I’ve replied to your email address outside of the blog and given you the address of the Regional Coordinator who is currently coordinating our initiative to send 200 quilts to children in an orphanage in Russia. Thank you so much for contacting us, and thank you so much for your kindness!
I have three quilts to send, but can’t access the address of the West coordinator. (the email address on filefor me isn’t current and I can’t figure out how to change it.) Susy McCall, Dillon, Montana.
Susy, I’m following up on the link to the West coast coordinator to see what the problem is. In the meantime, please send me a note to quiltsbeyondborders@gmail.com and I’ll send you the address of the closest coordinator to you. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
I don’t think the problem is at your end. I have changed e-address since setting up this computer, and it often insists on using the original one. Susy
When is your next deadline for receiving quilts and is there a suggested size needed?
We collect quilts throughout the year, as we normally make one trip a year ourselves and we work with other charities to deliver quilts when they are making trips. The size we prefer is 42 inches wide by 48 to 60 inches long, as that works well with the small bed sizes in many of the orphanages, and it’s large enough for even the older kids to keep warm under. It’s also small enough not to become a burden to the orphanage or to the child when they age out of the orphanage.
Thanks for asking!
I live in the Raleigh, NC, area and have a large box of fabric (strips, squares, yardage) that I would like to donate to someone who does charity quilts or other such crafts. Do you know where I might take them? It’s too much to just toss out, but we’re also moving to another state and are trying to whittle down the poundage, so we’re going through our fabric stash and trying to take with us only what we feel we might use in the future. Thanks for any help!
RezSchool, if you would send us an email to quiltsbeyondborders@gmail.com I can send you an address where we could use the fabric. Thanks so much; it will definitely come in handy.
Could you post a picture of the label that goes on each quilt. I have a number of quilts and no labels. Or email a picture of it and I can print some myself.
Gayle, please send a note to our email ID, quiltsbeyondborders@gmail.com so we can send you a picture of our labels. Thanks!
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I have long wanted to thank your organization for providing my son with a lovely quilt while he was in an orphanage in Ethiopia. We brought it home as a keepsake 3 years ago now and it a lovely reminder of human generosity and kindness. I hope you know these lovely quilts go to beautiful children who deeply appreciate them. Thank you sincerely from my family to all of you, Jessa Rodenburgh
Jessa, that is so exciting to hear! Wow! Thanks for sharing this information with us.
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I am brand new here, but have been donating to QBB through Amazon for years. Am I understanding that I can send you quilt tops and someone else will quilt them, or do I need to send only finished quilts?
Nancy, I’m sorry that this question wasn’t answered earlier. Somehow it slipped below our radar screen. Yes, you can donate quilt tops to us and we will arrange for a volunteer longarmer to quilt them. We do ask that you “kit up” the top with backing (at least 6″ wider and 6″ longer than the top to allow attachment to the frame) and binding. That way we can get it quickly to a longarmer and then along to a child. Thanks for asking!
Hello I have some quilts to donate. Do you have a chapter in the Los Angeles, CA area. Thank you.
Joann, we don’t really have “chapters”. The QBB team is 17 people who have met each other through quilt shows and on the internet and we work out of our homes.We’re all volunteers — QBB has no paid staff. I believe our closest Regional Coordinator to you is located in Escondido CA. Please send a note to our gmail ID, QuiltsBeyondBorders@gmail.com and we will send you her address.
My apologies for not responding to your note earlier. Unfortunately the comments on this page somehow didn’t come to our attention until tonight. Thanks for asking!
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Hi, do you have a chapter in the Sacramento CA area? Or where can I mail some quilts? You hanks!
Nancy, we don’t really have “chapters”. The QBB team is 17 people who have met each other through quilt shows and on the internet and we work out of our homes.We’re all volunteers — QBB has no paid staff. I believe our closest Regional Coordinator to you is located in Escondido CA. Please send a note to our gmail ID, QuiltsBeyondBorders@gmail.com and we will send you her address.
My apologies for not responding to your note earlier. Unfortunately the comments on this page somehow didn’t come to our attention until tonight. Thanks for asking!
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Hi. I’m from Calgary, Canada. Do you have any groups up here?
Marilynne
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I have four quilts to donate and I need an address to send them to please contact me at the below address
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I live in northern Idaho and during pandemic have made at least a dozen kid’s quilts. Mine are a tad larger widthwise but washed and ready to go. I have 2 grandchildren adopted from Ethiopia and my heart has so longed to help families in sad areas of the world.. just asking if you would take them and where I would send them. I’ve quilted for kids in need now for about 20 years and always pray that the quilt will gladden and comfort the one receiving it. It’s what the Lord has given me to do and I love it. God bless you all.
Hi Patty! Send a note to us at Quiltsbeyondborders@gmail.com and ask for it to be forwarded to Carla (that’s me). I grew up in Ethiopia and left a big part of my heart there, so I would be the one to take your quilts over there. I’ll send you a response with my address and let you know about my travel plans. Thanks!
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Hello, I just discovered your organization while reading a blog post about quilting and I followed a link here. I read in the comments that your size requirements are 42 inches wide by 48 to 60 inches long. Can these quilts be tied, or must they be quilted? Or can they be both? Are there any other requirements? Thank you.