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Marianne Fons and Quilts of Valor need your help.

For the first time a GoFundMe campaign has been launched.

From the site:

The Quilts of Valor® Foundation’s mission is to cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor. In 2016, over 19,000 Quilts of Valor were awarded stateside, from sea to shining sea, as well as in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. A Quilt of Valor is made totally by volunteers who give of their time and resources to make the highest quality quilt they can. The estimated cost is $250 per quilt, which includes fabric for the top, batting (filler), backing fabric, and shipping. We ask for your financial help to enable more quilts to be made and awarded. All funds collected will be provided to individual groups of quilters around the country to further the mission of Quilts of Valor Foundation. Please donate today and help us honor a veteran with a comforting and healing Quilt of Valor. As of January 15, 2017, QOVF has recorded the awarding of over 151,000 Quilts of Valor.

To learn more about the program, here is a clip from the 73-minute documentatry, Quilts of Valor, featruing Eleanor Burns, Alex, and Mark Lipinkski. The program, hosted by Marianne Fons, was originally aired on PBS a few years back.

To learn more about the Quilts of Valor program, click here.