Dress Distribution #52 - Children of Bohol Phils (c/o Norie Bordador)

This is one of the unscheduled distributions that I am happy to oblige as I still have dresses on hand which I want to give before I start the new year 2014. All these unscheduled distributions will be focused in the Philippines which is very okay with me because it is nearer and taking cost into consideration, it is not that expensive even if I have to send boxes and boxes of dresses which literally I am going to do. These particular parcels are going to the children of Bohol in the Philippines. Bohol is located in the central visayas region. It was recently strucked with a deadly earthquake. It happened in October of last year where 222 people died, 8 missing and over 900 injured. Thousands of structures were damaged and about 14,000 were totally destroyed. A month after the earthquake happened although the place was not directly hit by Typhoon Haiyan, a lot of those who were still living in temporary shelters had to be evacuated again.

Anyway, after coordinating with a parish, a group of volunteers headed by Norie Bordador will be flying over to Bohol from Manila . Am not sure but I think the flying time will be about an hour. They will be doing their distribution in Cambigsi Elementary School with the aid of the school in charge Ms Hilot and their school principal Dr Diodora Gabito once these parcels are received. 157 dresses for 157 children in this community. Am just so lucky that I can easily find people willing to do distributions on my behalf and they even have to fly sometimes. Thank you guys. Your efforts to help make a difference are really appreciated.

So without much ado, here are the boxes containing the 157 dresses that I will be sending over on Sunday (I hope otherwise it will have to be next weekend) -

and here are the contents of these 2 boxes - again splitted into two batches to make it easier for me to identify the donors -
Parcel 1 contents -

made possible by the following donors -
1) Shirley Bell
2) Ladies of Kapunda Sewing group
3) Betty Barrett & Betty Paull
4) Karen Interlandi
5) Bethany Greenaway
6) Deborah Parish
7) Monika Osvald
8) Canungra Circle of Friends Qld
9) Linda Smyth
10) Katherine Nott with fabrics donated by Amanda Sampson and the Fabric Bug
11) Gaylene Hermann
12) Annette Norley
13) Pam of Threading My Way
14) Wendy Yates

Parcel 2 contents -

made possible by the following donors -
1) Ladies of Kapunda Sewing Group
2) Di Menzel
3) Sarah Tanmahapran
4) Evelyn Smart, Colleen Barry, Veronica Tooey 
5) Siobhan Leyne and Anna Dacre
6) Katherine Nott
7) Monika Osvald
8) Anne Goedeck
9) Betty Barrett and Betty Paull
10) Bronwyn Reynolds
11) Toni Kirkpatrick
12) Golden girls Kay, Pauline, Betty & Julie

Again, no undies on these distributions and 5 of the dresses out of 157 I can no longer identify. If these dressses happen to be yours, let me know.

To see larger images of the contents of the two parcels, please click here. For more details on these distributions (and also at a later stage when feedback is received) please click here or click on the special 'Dress Distribution' tab which you can find at the top of this page.

Thank you so much to all the donors who made these two parcels possible. Thank you for heartily sharing your time, money, materials and effort in making these dresses for the less fortunate children in the Bohol area of the Philippines. Your kindness and generosity is very much appreciated. Thank you.

If you feel the need to enquire about this distribution, please feel free to send an email to dressagirlaustralia@gmail.com. Thank you.