Charity Quilts
Mito Quilts of Hope Charity Quilts is a project whose goal is to give a quilt to every patient with Mitochondrial Disease (Mito) in Canada and the United States within 5 years. This goal has yet to be met, but we have sent out almost 300 quilts to date as of November 2023. Due to Christine Knox’s own diagnosis of Mito, she conceived the project in August of 2013, to raise awareness of this rare genetic disease.
Affecting both children and adults, Mitochondrial Disease is life threatening and has an incidence of 1:4500. Mito is an energy failure at a cellular level, which causes cells and organs die. Currently there are no treatments available, only symptom relief. Consequently with each quilt you donate, hope will be given to someone who is very ill. Even more importantly, for patients who are unable to maintain their own body temperature, quilts are a perfect gift.
