{"id":4893,"date":"2023-11-03T19:56:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kidderminster-and-district\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2023-11-03T19:56:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T18:56:10","slug":"si-kidderminster-sewing-sisters-new-start-goody-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kidderminster-and-district\/2023\/11\/03\/si-kidderminster-sewing-sisters-new-start-goody-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"SI Kidderminster \u2013 Sewing Sisters New Start Goody Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kidderminster-and-district\/files\/2023\/11\/Gym-bags-resized-Mar-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4895 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kidderminster-and-district\/files\/2023\/11\/Gym-bags-resized-Mar-23-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kidderminster-and-district\/files\/2023\/11\/Gym-bags-resized-Mar-23-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kidderminster-and-district\/files\/2023\/11\/Gym-bags-resized-Mar-23.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At our Regional Meeting in December 2022, we heard a speaker from ANAWIM, the women&#8217;s centre in Birmingham which supports women in need.\u00a0 After hearing this speaker, we decided to continue making these gym style backpack bags from donated fabrics at our Sewing Sisters sessions.<\/p>\n<p>This enabled us to continue using our skills and donated fabrics to create items that can be given to women who need them when they access ANAWIM services.<\/p>\n<p>This expands on our other sewing projects for women and children in Uganda and for the Buddy Bag Foundation. We meet in a member&#8217;s home and all club members are welcome to come along even if they don&#8217;t sew. They help with pressing as well as providing much needed refreshments. Our sessions normally end with a bring and share lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of several sessions we made a total 24 bags which were delivered via a SI Solihull member, Janet Hemlin, who is a trustee of ANAWIM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At our Regional Meeting in December 2022, we heard a speaker from ANAWIM, the women&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[252,154,166,253],"class_list":["post-4893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news","tag-anawim","tag-buddy-bags","tag-sewing-sisters","tag-womens-centre-in-birmingham"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SI Kidderminster \u2013 Sewing Sisters New Start Goody Bags | News | Blog | Events | SI Kidderminster and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Kidderminster and District : Blog &amp; News : SI Kidderminster \u2013 Sewing Sisters New Start Goody Bags : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Kidderminster and District . 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