One-Stop-Shop is happening in January! FREE food! FREE flu shots, masks & sanitizer, rental assistance, childcare info, and MORE! Come attend our wonderful community! Happening in Salisbury!

Happy holidays, everyone!

These community initiatives are so important to so many and we are happy to provide these invaluable services into 2021. Attached in this post are the Flyers in English, Spanish and Haitian.

We encourage you to share with your local community! Please call, share and even print! Not everyone has broadband access— as we know. When we work together, we can serve together!

If you require your flyer to be emailed, please email delmarvacrafters@gmail.com for an email transcription. All flyers are transcribed on this blog post for those with a visual impairment. If you would like to be alerted via email for a flyer, please make sure to sign up for email alerts here or to send an email to me. Access matters!

Presented by Lower Shore Vulnerable Populations Task Force

ONE-STOP-SHOP 

FREE COMMUNITY RESOURCES!

Free food! 

Fresh produce boxes and non-perishable items. Milk, cheese, and meat may also be available

Free face masks & hand sanitizer

Free flu shots

Rental assistance

Healthcare information & screenings… and other resources & giveaways!!

SATURDAY, JANUARY 9

9 – 11 a.m

Emmanuel Salisbury

217 Beaglin Park Dr.,

Salisbury, MD 21804

Wheelchair accessible; near Shore Transit bus stop 198

SATURDAY, JANUARY 23

9 – 11 a.m.

Emmanuel Salisbury

217 Beaglin Park Dr.,

Salisbury, MD 21804

Wheelchair accessible; near Shore Transit bus stop 198

Read or share our news article to read more about us!

Every child deserves a miracle, especially our children in need in Wicomico and Worcester. We have an amazing community here!

My friends Amber, Deb and I are counting on you! Amber runs Fenix Youth Project and my friend Deborah runs the local Kindess Box. This been has been the best trio ever. My friends are lovely!

You can donate to Deb for her to finish her shopping or donate to Delmarva Crafters via our Venmo (just ask) — so Deb can shop! We’re counting on YOU! Amazon also will deliver to the mothers or to me… and an Elf or Santa will deliver to these kiddos! Please HELP!! 🙂

Love, Dom

Some people say that the holidays aren’t here until it’s Thanksgiving, but I think crafters can agree that it’s the few weeks leading up to Thanksgiving that make all the difference.

Most of all, it’s starting to get to cold… and not everyone has the ability to stay warm. If you want to make an impact in your community during this time, it’s totally possible to do that because we have projects to sign up for as a community. You can enjoy a holiday movie— and make a scarf for someone in need! Win, win!

If you would like to donate supplies, please reach out to me! I am in need of ALL crafting supplies – including arts and crafts supplies to make cards! For monetary donations, please donate to our GoFundMe.

This winter holiday project will be updated as non-profits, local organizations and faith organizations reach out. Please check back periodically for any updates if you are not a Facebook member of our Craft Club Facebook group.

• Winter Holiday Card Drive: you can make Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or just general winter themed cards! No matter what you make, it’s sure to raise the spirits of those who need it! The goal is to collect as many cards as possible to donate to senior facilities, orgs/non-profits, faith organizations and citizens in isolation. If your organization needs cards or a citizen needs a card, please reach out.

• Face Masks are still in need for many orgs! Please make sure to always check out our Sign Up Genius right here! It will go to your email and it will help me to stay on track on for who is signing up for what project. If that is too hard, I am happy to collect your masks (or project) to pick up from you!

• Sewn Face Masks & ear savers for Lower Shore Vulnerable Populations: we have partnered with Tri Community Meditation (a local non-profit) who leads the Vulnerable Populations Task Force for Salisbury & Wicomico County, MD since May to provide face masks for those affected by poverty, immigrants, disabled, etc, at community outreach events called “One-Stop-Shop” events.

• Red, White & Blue Twin Sized Quilts or Crochet/Knit Blankets for Coastal Hospice’s “We Honor a Veteran” Program: yarn and materials must be new! Please make sure fabric is washed! If making blankets for this program, please let me know & I will retrieve blanket squares for it from the Warm Up America box.

• Soap SACKS: we will be donating knitted and crocheted SOAP soaps and bars of soaps to the Lower Shore Vulnerable Populations Task Force events (and any other org/faith org) that requests these. The pattern for the Soap SACK is here. Cotton yarn only! Please reach out to me to pick up yarn!

• Warm Up Wicomico: they are in need of scarves, hats, gloves, mittens, blankets (please read below), etc. You can knit, crochet or sew these items! These will be given out to the homeless shelters and to those being affected by poverty in Wicomico County.

• Assemble Blanket Squares & Sew/Crochet Blanket Squares: From the incredible non-profit “Warm Up America” – we got a box of 500 squares for blanket. These squares are assembled via crocheting or sewing (via yarn) to assemble into blankets. You can pick up as many squares as you would like via my house. Warm Up America requires the number of blankets to be counted and photos helps with their funding so please make sure to keep an accurate tally & take pics. Thank you!!

The Lower Shore Vulnerable Populations Task Force will be hosting another One-Stop-Shop again this upcoming Sunday on the 8th in Salisbury.

One major component is making sure that the word is getting OUT! If you want to share the Facebook event, you can do that by checking it out here. Otherwise, we kindly ask you to share these flyers on your social media or within your neighborhood!

If you’re concerned about ink, you can download the low ink options, via the Drive or via Facebook. By distributing them to friends, local business or your church (for example), it allows everyone to find out about them! We want to help all.

Below are the links and files:

Google Drive (all files; you can download them individually or all of them)

The Task Force is in need masks, soap, and sanitizer to provide at the events. Our underserved communities are in need of help! Delmarva Crafters will provide fabric, elastic, etc, if you will commit to sewing! Not nearby? You can ship masks! Reach out to me with any questions that you have.

IMPORTANT: For volunteers who have contributed, please comment or email contact@delmarvacovidcrafters. I need you to message you via Facebook or email, so you can be “logged” for an upcoming thank you! If you would like to participate in the Masks On Maryland video, please make sure I have a photo (or video) of you. Thanks!

We’ll now be going into November. Wow, right? A few months ago in March, I had a vision of starting a mask group because there was a mask shortage. So many of you have done so much– and made so many masks.

Wow, what a journey of mask making, donations, and volunteering from you all. I am so impressed by what this journey of love has been. Together, we have made so many friends. It’s fair to say that we can be so proud of what we have done together! When we can get together, I look forward to a nice night out together with all of us!!

I know a lot of you have gone back to work, are doing virtual learning with kiddos, grandkids, or loved ones. Maybe you’re just experiencing a sense of fatigue from all of the sewing (or crochet/knit from our fiber volunteers)!

Either way, you have contributed to this little group. It is an incredible journey because of YOU!

As we head into winter, it has left me to wonder: how do we continue to contribute? The needs are not just masks, but winter goods. We have an entire community here of needs that are rushing in. They need help… and we can help!

Ironically, there is a blanket nearby that is waiting to be finished. It’s a grief gift for someone who recently lost a loved one. Items like that remind me of the mission of this group.

We can craft compassion in a time of distance.

With this new shift, I will be moving forward in new ways. Instead of just focusing on masks, I will be encouraging others to come to “us” about other community initiatives– such as for nursing homes, the elderly, and many others. Quilts for dementia for example are a need, just to use that as one example.

We will still make masks, but will also serve all– and be a bit more open and relaxed, too. I hope to foster Zooms for us to stitch together (knit, sew, crochet, and whatever crafts we enjoy together), encourage volunteerism, and a center of the charitable community that we have been. If there are projects to participate in, I will make sure that others know about them. My role is, and always will be, to serve our community. I have a lot of visions of how this can happen— including in our “new normal.” I know we got this!

I think being relaxed will encourage others to serve along with us, too! I hope you will still participate with this little group here that was formed on love. I will be shifting our name to reflect the new reality and the way that I want us to move forward. Most of all, I hope you will keeping on this journey.

Keep posted for the next update!

Love, Dom