Good Samaritan Quilt Plaza

Many Will Remember Your Kindness

Families and children who receive the Quilts, Personal Care Kits or School Kits made possible by your donation to Lutheran World Relief’s Quilt & Kit Shipping Fund will always remember the kindness of a stranger.

The Good Samaritan Quilt Plaza in front of LWR’s Baltimore headquarters also stands as a testament to many acts of generosity and kindness. The engraved and colorful bricks make a pattern called “Many Trips around The World” and represent the distribution of millions of Quilts and comfort-giving Kits to people who have lost everything to a natural disaster or war.

Sponsor a brick for a $500 donation to Lutheran World Relief’s Quilt & Kit Shipping Fund and your gift enables us to send 220 Quilts, 500 Fabric Kits, 188 Personal Care Kits, 385 Baby Care Kits or 357 School Kits for children. When all 10,000 bricks have been purchased, more than $36 million in Quilts and Kits will have been distributed throughout the world with the proceeds!

What better way to honor someone than to sponsor a brick in his or her name?

• Honor your church’s quilting ministry or a faithful leader in your congregation.
• Memorialize a longtime quilter or other special person.
• Commemorate a special event such as a birth, marriage or anniversary.

 Download a brick sponsorship form or call 800.597.5972 to reserve a brick now.

Can’t donate a brick right away?

You may reserve a brick now and raise the $500 within the next year. Consider what others do to raise money for the Quilt & Kit Shipping Fund:

• Sell, raffle or auction two or three specially designed quilts
• Take orders for quilts as wedding and baptism gifts
• Hold a Quilt Sunday and sponsor the church coffee hour
• Ask other members in the congregation to consider honoring the quilting group or a special member from the group
• Apply for matching funds from local organizations, businesses and employers
• Work with one or two other congregations in your community

Impact & Efficiency

Your support of Lutheran World Relief’s mission and ministry changes lives. Food, water, income, opportunity — those are just a few of the things you extend to your brothers and sisters in need with your gifts.

We strive to be good stewards of those gifts, working to ensure every dollar you give does the most good possible.

Check out the impact of your dollar with Lutheran World Relief:

Other Giving Options

Monthly Giving

By committing to give monthly, you help us make long-term commitments to help raise up people in desperate need. You also help us cut administrative and overhead costs so that more funds go directly to the projects. Learn more »

Legacy Giving

Including LWR in your will helps us make an even bigger impact because it allows us to plan for and commit to projects in the long term while minimizing the overhead costs of fundraising. Learn more »

Matching Gift Program

Many companies encourage employees to contribute to charitable organizations by offering matching gift programs. Learn more »

Foods Resource Bank

The Foods Resource Bank is a non-governmental organization that channels funds from projects of farmers and communities in the U.S. to small-holder farmers overseas. Learn more »

Quilt & Kit Shipping Fund

Every year, Lutheran groups and individuals put their hearts and hands into sewing Quilts and assembling Kits of baby, health, school and sewing items, which LWR is able to distribute efficiently and economically. For every $1 you give to the Quilt & Kit Shipping Fund, someone in need receives $8 worth of essential personal items. Learn more »