![]() The international program is based in Guatemala, where the program pays indigenous women to sew the dresses. The program now operates internationally. Women who don’t have a dress to donate can “sponsor a dress” for a woman who has a dress but can’t afford the $100 monetary donation. ![]() The donations pay for the work of shipping the gowns to volunteers and then shipping the finished baby dresses to the parents. ![]() The project asks for a monetary donation with each dress. More than 500 volunteers across the country work to create the Angel Gowns. The project now has a warehouse full of old wedding dresses. Each dress can become about 10 little gowns. The Angel Gowns volunteers take donated wedding dresses and turn them into burial garments. The Angel Gowns project ensures every family can receive a beautiful handmade garment to bury their child in. For these families, the joy having a child is quickly followed by the pain and loss of bereavement. Some babies don’t make it out of the NICU. Project NICU Helping Hands is a nonprofit organization that provides support and practical help to families who have a child in a NICU unit. It’s where newborn babies with serious medical conditions go for treatment. NICU is the acronym for a neonatal intensive care unit. The program is part of the NICU Helping Hands organization. Beverly Farm also has a Special Olympics Equestrian Team that I volunteer my horse, Tex, and my time to support the teams success.Facebook | The Angel Gowns Project NICU Helping Hands ![]() Beverly Farm is a home for adults with disabilities. I also sew with a group who are making quilts for the residents of Beverly Farm in Godfrey. Now that I’ve retired from The Boeing Company, I wanted to put my sewing skills to service. I have several other friends who have lost little ones over the years, but I would like to volunteer and make little gowns in honor of Thomas Noah Keppler. Their little grandson would be the same age as my granddaughter, Makenzie. Most recently was my cousin’s first grandchild became an Angel. Over the years I’ve had co-workers and friends who have lost little ones. Found out about Allison’s Angel Gowns when I met fellow seamstress, Christine Taul. I’ve continued to sew most all of my life making my own clothes, making dresses for my daughter and now as a quilter and owner of Sew Far Sew Good Custom Quilting. The leader of the 4-H group took each of us to her home and taught us to sew, knit and crochet. When I was very young my mom signed me up to participate in 4-H. I live in Brighton, IL and I’m married with 3 grown children and 2 grandchildren. I cant sew at all, so I leave that aspect to the real angels of the group, the seamstresses! I am much better at the business side of things! Thank you all for visiting our page!! “There is no footprint too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world” I love my friends and the occasional girls night. In my spare time, I love to hang out with my family and let the girls experience new things all the time. He is also very supportive of this project and does a lot of behind the scenes work for me. I am married to my husband Dustin, we have been together for 9 years. ![]() I am a mother to 2 other children, Olivia and Elizabeth. I started this project in March of 2014 and it has grown beyond my wildest expectations and I am just thrilled. This project was started as a way to memorialize my infant daughter Allison, who passed away in December 2012 at 1 day old, and also as a way to help other bereaved parents as they enter into the life changing world of child loss. I am the Founder and Executive Director of Allison’s Angel Gowns. ![]()
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