By the time you read this article these dresses are on their way to Kenya. Today my niece and family are leaving for Kenya and she will be taking with her the parcel below of 13 dresses to distribute to the lucky 13 disadvantaged kids in Nairobi -
and here are the 13 dresses in the parcel -
made possible by the following donors and sponsors -
1) Dress A Girl Australia
2) Elaine Klein
3) Colleen Mundt
4) Lyn Granger
To see individual images of the dresses included in the distribution, please click on the image above or click here.
Thank you to the donors of this distribution and my heartfelt thank you to my niece, Samantha for handcarrying the 2 parcels of 13 dresses. Thank you for making a difference to the lives of at least 13 girls in Kenya, 13 lucky girls this Christmas. Much appreciated.
I will be sending a second parcel of 32 dresses to the children of South Africa but this will be posted in early Jan 2018 when there are less activities in both post offices of Australia and South Africa. Also, I am waiting for the first parcel I sent to be cleared at customs by Joan Adams of Morningstar Childrens Foundation of Welkom. The package has arrived yesterday but it needs clearance and it might take awhile. Once the first parcel has been cleared, this second parcel below will go.
and here are the 32 dresses in the parcel -
made possible by the following dress donors and sponsors-
1) Year 8 students of Berkeley Vale High School
2) Jody Clooney
3) Yvonne Henderson
4) Monika Osvald
5) Year 8 students of St St George Girls High School of Kogarah
To see individual images of the dresses in the parcel, click on any of the images above or click here.
Thank you to the donors and sponsors for your generous donation especially to the Year 8 students of Berkeley Vale High School under the guidance of their school adviser Katrina Hill for raising the amount of $50.00 to help with the cost of sending the dresses to South Africa. It is much appreciated. Thank you.
Its 3 years today that I was able to send a parcel to South Africa. Today I am sending 35 dresses to the Morningstar Children Centre in Welkom for the children of their foundation. Here is the parcel which I am sending today and hopefully gets delivered before Christmas day -
and here are the 35 dresses in the parcel -
made possible by the following donors -
1) Marlene van Zetten
2) Yvonne Henderson
3) Elaine Klein
4) Anne McGinnes
5) Lyn Granger
6) Year 8 students of St George High School of Kogarah
Thank you to the generosity of the donors of the dresses. It is much appreciated.
I try to make sure (for as long as I have the necessary funds) that the dresses I collect and the sponsored dresses are distributed to as many different locations as I can possibly can so some of the dresses from the 2017 Christmas Collection will be re-allocated to a new dress distribution (#116) for the children of the Morningstar Foundation of South Africa. This parcel will be sent by the end of next week. Click on the link below if one is interested to know which dresses have been allocated so far.
This is my act of kindness for the year 2017. Allocating and sharing dresses from the 2017 Christmas collection to the children of Peru. Seventeen dresses will be sent to my friend Julia Quintana who will then allocate to children in need.
This the parcel -
and these are the dresses inside the parcel -
made possible by Monika Osvald, Yvonne Henderson and Sue Pursche. This will be an early Christmas present for those children who will be lucky enough to receive a dress. Thank you to Monika, Yvonne and Sue for their generous donations. It is much appreciated.
Twenty dresses and five t-shirts/pairs of shorts set for boys have been allocation from the 2017 Christmas collection for the less fortunate kids of Vigan Philippines. I will be leaving for Manila on Friday, 17th of November and will be handcarrying these dresses to distribute in Vigan. These are the dresses -
made possible by Yvonne Henderson and Monika Osvald. These allocations will be an early Christmas presents for the kids who will be lucky enough to receive them. Thank you to Yvonne and Monika for making this distribution possible. Much appreciated
I have always wanted to send these items to a location but I could not remember which box it was that contained them until two days ago I found it by accident. This time sending the parcel is on the top of my list.
Three of these items (hairclips (19x), singlets (12x) and handmade bags (4x)) were donated to sell to raise money for postage. I have not been attending markets for almost 2-1/2 years now so I never had the chance to sell them (and they did not sell from my website) so I have decided to send it to Pakistan for the kids to wear and enjoy. The other two items of beanies (4x) and scarves (4x) will be of good use during Pakistan's winter season. They are all new. You see, sometimes I have this habit of buying something when on sale (real sale!) hoping that I will be able to give it to someone. And since the box still had some space available, I added in the 4 dresses sent by the Year 9 students of the Rockhampton Grammar School. These items will be sent to Lubna Ghani for her to give to those who are in need of them. I always feel good when I sort and pack items to send. Hopefully I will have more to pack with the season of Christmas almost just around the corner.
These are the 4 parcels that will be handed over to Anne Salvador of Network Heaven to be included in their 2017 Christmas gifts for the children of Sri Lanka. These parcels will be hand delivered by my niece on Monday, 11-Sep-2017
Inside these parcels are (1) 78 dresses - a few of these dresses (about 20 of them) were from the 2016 Christmas collection which did not make it in the distribution because the parcels arrived late or the sizes were too big or too small to be included in the distribution.
(2) 21 t-shirts and 15 girls'undies - most of the dresses if not all have already been allocated undies from my collection -
(3) 5 T-shirts & pairs of shorts for the boys -
(4) 190 pencils, 91 totes and 19 exercise books -
made possible by the following donors -
1) Dress sponsors for all 31 dresses which also raised the amount of $313.08 and has been donated directly to Christina Noble Children's Foundation for their Clean Water Tanks project for Vietnam.
2) Lyn Granger
3) Jayne Hogan
4) Colleen Mundt, Tanya McCullough and Kay Goodall
5) Michelle Wiltshire
6) Jody Clooney
7) Denise Scott
8) Shandra Scott
9) Monika Osvald'
10) Sally Sanchez
11) Fe Fumar
12) Joan Lui
13) Soft Treasures
14) Sun siblings
15) Dress A Girl Australia for most of the undies and the t-shirts provided on the dresses without sleeves
Thank you to all the donors/contributors especially to the dress sponsors. Your contribution to this distribution is much appreciated.
I will be going to the Philippines next week for a visit and spending a few days in the Island of Boracay. It will be a very worthwhile trip if I can take with me some dresses to share with a few girls over there so I am bringing with me the 42 dresses I have made the past month. (Note that my sewing mojo is gone again and have not sewn any dresses at all for almost 2 weeks now).
Here are the dresses I will be handcarrying with me (hopefully I do not get charged with excess baggage) and perhaps share some pictures with you when I get back.
I will be visiting Vietnam in early April so I have decided to handcarry 25 dresses which I will be distributing in an orphanage I have organized about two weeks ago. Here is the parcel of 25 dresses
and the 25 dresses
made possible by the additional donors below. 3 of the dresses came from the 2016 Christmas collection which did not make it as the parcel was already full, 5 dresses are sponsored and 3 dresses I sewed for a friend of mine. The other 14 dresses are from my sewing marathon 2017.
1) Sue Porsche (1 dress)
2) Monika Osvald (2 dresses)
3) Megan Jones (5 sponsored dresses)
4) Jen Fegredo (3 dresses)
5) Dress A Girl Australia (14 dresses)
For larger and individual images of the 25 dresses, please click here. Thank you to the additional donors of this collection. It is much appreciated.
