Meriter Volunteer Part I

Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday's Meriter Event! It was a fun and productive sewing and cutting day:)

Special thanks to TASA's Community Service Director, Krisa Kuffel for organizing the event with her outstanding team Kelly McCamley, Rachael Snedigar, Kayla Rossa and Lauren Hood :)

To anyone not familiar with the Meriter Bereavement Project, it's a project created to sew unique infant bereavement gowns, through a partnership between the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Program at Madison’s Meriter Hospital, and the School of Human Ecology.  

Every year, the Textile and Apparel Student Association members dedicate hours of their time on the project to create gowns to fit micro-preemie, preemie, and term infants. 

***Human Ecology former lecturers Anna Stevens and Marian Lichtenwalner created the designs for the gowns back in 2001. Students then produced a prototype packet of patterns in multiple sizes, along with an educational video and other resources, as part of a service-learning course.  The prototype was further developed into the final package for distribution to other hospitals with the help of a Beckner Outreach Grant from the School. 

If you haven't already, please come and help us finish with the embellishments for the baby clothes next Sunday! It will be some time well spent with your fellow TASA members while helping out the Meriter Hospital.
SEE YOU ALL THERE !