Berna Hogan | Board Member

Berna Hogan is one of the many volunteer quilters who help the Love Quilt Project accomplish its mission of providing children in foster care with feelings of warmth and resilience. With over 30 years of quilting experience, as well as experience in many other child-centric charities, the choice to become a volunteer quilter was an easy one. Berna was also lucky enough to join the LQP team in delivering the latest batch of quilts to foster homes in South Africa last January, a trip she described as “the most humbling experience of her life”.

Berna and her husband met with hundreds of kids throughout the delivery trip, each one with their own unique story and circumstances. However, with each child they met, it was easy to find common ground to bond over. “It was so easy to find things to talk about with all these different children. Some wanted to talk with my husband, who’s a professional chef, about cooking. Others loved soccer, which I learned from watching my grandkids play. It was surreal seeing the similarities between us even with the vast distances between us.” Even with her many years in helping and supporting youth in all corners of the world, Berna still claims that these are the kind of moments that keep her volunteering. “It’s the passion and my desire to help for sure, just to see how it's not like you have to be able to redo everything by yourself, just one little step, one little piece of the puzzle, and if there's a bunch of other people putting pieces together… I feel like I’m just one of those small little pieces of that puzzle, but yet we all fit together in the end to make this”.