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Healing Quilt moves headquarters to the San Francisco Bay Area.

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 Mercy St johns Hospice is one of several places the Brothers and Sisters of St Martin de Porres and Healing Quilt project donate there handmade quilts of love to patients of Hospice and those in need.

AIDS Healing Quilt to be unveiled Monday                             June 30, 2007

     The Healing Quilt Project of the Ozarks, in collaboration with the Family Violence Center, AIDS Project of the Ozarks and St. Paul United Methodist Church, will host an quilt panel unfolding ceremony Monday.

     The event will focus on HIV/AIDS and family violence awareness.

     The quilt panel, part of the AIDS Quilt Project, is dedicated to the memory of Jennifer A. Hudson, who was a rape victim who acquired HIV/AIDS. She died at the age of 29

     Representing Jennifer will be her mother, Rose Hudson of Half Moon Bay, CA.

     The Public is welcome to attend the event at 1 p.m. on the front steps of St. Paul United Methodist Church, 413 E. Walnut St.

     The Healing Quilt Project of the Ozarks provides quilting workshops for those who want to make quilt panels in memory of a loved one who has died, or lap quilts for anyone with HIV/AIDS, cancer, or other debilitating illnesses. The organization also supports work done in Africa with babies born with HIV/AIDS; in South American with young adults who have been rejected by their families and society because of HIV/AIDS; and other efforts locally, nationally and internationally.   


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 Cleve Jones Father and Founder of the Aids Memorial Quilt sets on Monument and Plaque that 10 year volunteer Rev.Bro. Joseph+ [Rick McCormack] placed when the Aids Quilts original location was. Forced to close, due to the rising costs of rent in San Francisco,which triggered the moving of the Aids Quilt to Atlanta, Georgia. Rick has continued to work with the Quilt which continues to be an important part of his Aids education process.  

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/21/MNG6Q4EAE51.DTL

Rick McCormack speaks at UC Berkeley with the Aids Quilt

http://www.lbl.gov/Publications/Currents/Archive/June-30-2000.html#RTFToC19