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Safety Quilt Project
For at least 20 years, quilts have been wrapped around clients at Haven​ to help them feel safe. For Haven's 40th Anniversary, we are showcasing quilts: how safe they make you feel as well as the incredible generosity and compassion of the women who create them for Haven.
Quilts Create a Safe Space
Over the years, gatherings of quilters in Nanaimo have lovingly crafted hundreds of quilts for Haven clients. Each quilt requires 40-60 hours. Every stitch and every design is brought into the world with love and compassion by creating hands.
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Women and children at Haven bring these quilts home as a reminder to stay safe. When they are feeling alone and scared, the warmth and coziness of the quilt offers security... and the love with which it is infused is a reminder that they are not alone.
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A quilt wrapped around a woman or a child who has experienced violence offers immediate warmth, comfort, and security.
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Quilts reflect the grassroots, community approach to making sure that everyone feels safe and is safe.
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Because safety changes everything, quilts are also a reminder that safety doesn’t happen by accident. We are all responsible for promoting safety.
A quilt says,
“You are safe here.”
Safety Quilt Photo Project
The Safety Quilt Photo Project helps all of us to know what it feels like to be wrapped in a quilt. We wrap a quilt around your shoulders then, optionally and with your permission, take a photo of you.
Digital Quilt Project
Messages of how to promote safety are written and drawn on paper squares that are lovingly "stitched" together to create a digital safety quilt.
Digital quilt from squares created at Haven Society's AGM & 40th Anniversary Event
