Highlights during the week

Lots of great things happened during the week which some of you might be eager to know. Firstly, 4 bigs bags of dress materials were dropped off at my place last Monday by Jenni Kirillov. The bag of materials are owned by her mum who was an avid dressmaker years ago but due to health reasons have not been able to sew for many years now and has requested to find a good home for all her materials. My heartfelt thank you to Jenni's mum for the dress materials and to Jenni for delivering the goodies. I will  make a few dresses for her to include in the Uganda and Cambodia parcels very soon. Thank you.

Next highlight is that my employer (I work full-time M to F) launched an exciting new initiative called The Side by Side program. The program provides its employees with the opportunity to apply for a one-off Grant of up to $5,000 that will be awarded to their nominated eligible community organization. I applied for the grant and nominated Save the Children Australia for their community work in Wilcannia NSW under Belinda Ritchie.The results will be known in early October and I hope she wins the grant. If she wins the grant, a playground will probably be provided for the kids and their parents who accompanies their kids three times a week and new activity tables for the kids to use and enjoy and perhaps develop their skills in art as I have been told that the kids love to draw and colour. I am keeping my fingers crossed that my nomination is successful.

Last but not the least, distributions of dresses and pairs of shorts and accessories . About 560 dresses and 178 pairs of shorts and 178 tshirts are leaving my humble abode this month for Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Uganda and the Philippines.

For those wishing to make dresses to donate, preference at this time is for pillowcase dresses between the size of 7 to 12. Thank you!

And here is the postal address for any contributions to this very worthwhile cause -

                                      Dress A Girl Australia

                                      P.O. Box 240

                                      Casula Mall Casula

                                      NSW 2170

Dont forget the 'T-shirts for Abim' and '100 Days of Quilting' charity drives are still going on. The 'T-shirts for Abim' is soon to close (25th of August) so if you want to do something different, perhaps donating a t-shirt to this cause would appeal to you. Come and join us...living the year 2013 making a difference. For more information, please feel free to send an email to dressagirlaustralia@gmail.com. Thank you.

Thank you so much in advance.