Side One is complete

The Awareness Quilt is now one big step closer to making its debut' at the Washington DC Rally on Aug. 18, 2007. Side one is now complete. It contains 323 squares, each of which contains one child who has been victimized by Corruption in our Government but who also stands in representation for thousands of others just like them. Some "victimized" by Child Protective Services (CPS) and some by very corrupt Family Courts. It really matters not by which of these entities the blame lies for each of these children, they are INNOCENT and have taken the brunt for it all. True, parents, grandparents, sibblings, and the extended family all suffer, but the children pay the greatest price. Their homes will NEVER be the same, they lose family members they have bonds with, they lose their identities as who they really are and where they came from. IS THAT even remotely "fair" to them. I should think not~!!! They feel the stress of it all and many times they don't even know why nor what is going on. They have worries about their days and futures ahead that they have no control over. They did NOT deserve what has been bestowed on them as a result of this corruption and at the hands of the CPS Social and Case Workers nor the Judges and Attorneys, the "players" of the Corrupt Family Courts.

May the children represented by this quilt serve as a reminder of the Guilt and Shame that those who have perpetrated their ABUSE and displaced justiced upon them must wear. Social Workers, Case Workers, Judges, Attorneys, Fathers and Mothers, it is TIME to put your own agendas and wants on the "back burners" and concentrate on what the children NEED. This is about Children growing up and being with their Families so long as their is NO proven risk and threat of harm or danger to them and should NEVER EVER be about MONEY-POWER-or CONTROL from anyone involved in the children's lives~!!!

It is our hope that after seeing the "thousands" of children represented here, those persons who have been GUILTY of ABUSING a child, whether Government employee or a parent, from this day forward, visions in their memories of what they have seen here in this quilt, will race through the minds of every single one and serve as a reminder to keep the child at the fore-front of whatever they do and STOP the abuse of our children, serve and protect the children and their families in the manner they are both morally and legally obligated to do.

Please take the time to visit the DC Rally on August 18 and view this Awareness Quilt for yourself. You will not be able to walk away without being touched by it, unless you have no conscious at all.

"Walk a mile in the child's shoes first, before you act and do your deeds, then ASK yourself if you would want them done to you and then do accordingly."

Gail Head
Creator of the Awareness Quilt, 2007.
ghead@wccs.net

***Individual names of the children will not be published to protect the innocent.***
Our apology that we cannot post photos depicting individual children for 2 reasons.
1. Their identity protection, safety, and security.
2. No one child is more important than the other and we will NOT discriminate against any
child represented in this quilt. It would be just entirely too time consuming at the
present to photograph individual squares and post them. Our apology, but time
constraints will just not permit. We will make close-up photos available to the families
of these children after the Rally. Information on how to obtain them will be posted when
they are available.