Scarf

Make a scarf. You might just save a life.

 

The LifeStraw, along with new cisterns and wells, can save lives the moment they are available to people in need. But how do we get them there? What can each of us do to make a contribution? Short of traveling to remote areas to deliver supplies and dig wells, it doesn’t seem like there is much that can be done. But there is. Many worthy charities have the personnel and infrastructure in place, and are doing valuable work to help those in need. What these charities don’t have are the financial resources to make the full impact they are capable of.

There are many ways you can contribute to the charities that are helping those in need. Raising money can be difficult and time consuming, or it can be fun, easy and rewarding. By doing something as simple as making and selling a scarf, you can change the lives of others. And by changing a life you can change the world.

Inspired by Japanese textile artist Yuh Okano, this scarf is symbolic of the beauty of water. Bubbles and ripples are created by steam in a technique called shibori, or “memory in cloth”. The cloth remembers the water that created it.

Download our step-by-step instructions and print out the tags, front and back. For as little as US$3.00, the cost of the fabric alone, you can make this scarf. If you sell it for US$25.00, less than the price of hand-made scarves in boutique shops, the US$22.00 profit you make can be donated directly to a water related charity. Making just one scarf can provide fresh drinking water to one person for the next 15 years (if you donate to the well digging efforts of Charity: Water, one of many worthy charities). Consider the change that is possible if women throughout the world make and sell scarves to benefit the women and children who are in need. It is the gift of selfless service that will change the world.

 

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