The Zonta Club of Goulburn is looking for people to help us assemble breast care cushions on Saturday February 17 at our ‘Sip-Sew-Stuff’ morning.

The cushions will be distributed to hospitals to ensure that each person who has undergone breast surgery receives a cushion to take home.

The Zonta Breast Care Cushion aids recovery to women (and men) by allowing them to sit, sleep and rest comfortably.

The cushion also helps prevent hurt from bumps while walking around and any discomfort from wearing seat belts.

About two per cent of breast cancers occur in men, and the Zonta Breast Care Cushion is certainly provided to men on request.

The Zonta Breast Care Cushion is a project of District 24, to which the Zonta Club of Goulburn belongs.

The Breast Care Cushion project has been an endorsed service project in all Zonta Districts in Australia since 2001.

Thousands of women have benefited from receiving a cushion.

Zonta clubs undertake to keep one or more hospitals supplied with the Zonta Breast Care Cushions and the staff undertake to ensure that each person undergoing breast surgery receives a cushion to take home.

While some clubs make the cushions from beginning to end using the work of club members, many clubs are assisted by club supporters and a variety of people in their local community.

These can be local high school students, textile students at a local college, nursing home residents, community sewing circle members or other ‘friends of Zonta’ who lend their hands to sew the cushions up to the stage of being ‘flat’ – before the filling is added.

The filled cushions are then wrapped ready for delivery.

If you would like to be involved in this project or enquire about receiving a cushion for someone who has had breast surgery, join us for our ‘Sip-Sew-Stuff’ activity at the Goulburn Workers Club (enter through McKell Place) on Saturday February 17, from 10.30am to 12.30pm.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t sew: there will be a job for everyone!