Local charity supports another sustainable upcycling project

The dignity bibs were kindly designed and sewn by volunteer Ann Morris during the covid lockdown. All of the items of clothing used had been donated by the community. They also recycled old shower curtains, duvet sets and pillow cases in to emergency wash bags, laundry bags, even dusters and face wipes.

Amanda and Ann decided to undertake this project as they felt that there were too many items of unwanted clothing going to landfill, or that they could not even be sold in the charity shops for £1. There was more value in transforming these items into something else to help patients at the end-of-life.

Amanda Absalom-Lowe said “We are very pleased that these will help keep people’s dignity and that this will hopefully be a new sewing project for the future. We would also like to thank Ann Morris for kindly sewing these items.”

Paul Sartori Hospice at Home provides a range of services to Pembrokeshire people living in the final stages of a life-limiting illness, including home nursing care, equipment loan, complementary therapy, bereavement and counselling support, under 18’s anticipatory grief and bereavement support, physiotherapy, advance care planning and training.

The services provided by the Paul Sartori Hospice at Home enable people in the later stages of any life-limiting illness to be cared for and to die at home with dignity, independence, pain free and surrounded by those they hold most dear, if that is their wish.

All of the services are free of charge and are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, thanks to the generosity of the Pembrokeshire Community.

Further information on the charity and its services can be obtained by visiting their website www.paulsartori.org, or by phoning 01437 763223.