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Home-based care wrap project launched

  
 

A woman carrying a baby in a colorful wrap.
A woman demonstrates how the wrap can be used to carry a baby. Photo by Janet Guyer.

International Health Ministries’ AIDS office launched the new home-based care wrap project at the Presbyterian Women’s Gathering in July. The wrap project is based on the long colorful skirts women wear in sub-Saharan Africa. For the women a skirt is more than an article of clothing. It identifies them as a volunteer, an identification of which they are proud.

This wrap is the first one to be designed by home-based care volunteers in Malawi. The colorful blue wrap (two meters of fabric) depicts six different home-based care situations surrounding a map of Africa. On the border is a series of huts from South, East and Central Africa, Bible verses used by volunteers and a red, white, blue and yellow border that was taken from the pattern of the wall of a South Africa homestead. (Download a brochure about the wrap project .)PDF icon

 
     
 

These wraps will be gifts to people in the United States donating $200 or more to the AIDS Crisis Overseas ECO # 862706 or Home-Based Care ECO # 051700. Each of the home-based care volunteers in Malawi has received two meters of the same fabric.  In Malawi, the women will make skirts for themselves, which they wear when they go on home visits.  The women will also use the material to carry supplies and their babies.

  
     
  Three men looking at a colorful wrap depicting a map of Africa, with a blue and yellow border.
Men examining the large pattern on the wrap. Photo by Janet Guyer.		  
     
 

Once you receive your wrap there are a variety of things you can do with it – use it as a banner or Communion tablecloth.  Check out the following for ways to wear your wrap. PDF icon

If you have any questions, please contact Joy Raatz at (502) 569-5415.

 
   
 
 

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