Share a christmas smile...Sponsor a dress

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.

~ Janice Maeditere

Other people share their home, their food and other Christmas practices we normally enjoy doing at Christmas time. Here at dress a girl australia and for almost seven years now I try to share big smiles with disadvantaged kids which we normally see on people's faces when opening christmas gifts. And this year is no different. Share the spirit of Christmas...share your Christmas smile...sponsor a dress. All you have to do to add big smiles to the world this Christmas is click on the image below. Thank you.

Donation #7 - 2017 Christmas Collection from C. Paradisis

A parcel of 4 dresses for Dress A Girl Australia's 2017 Christmas Collection has been received today from Chrysoulla Paradisis.

Thank you for your donation. Much appreciated.

Donation #8 - 2017 Christmas Collection from Lyn Granger

Another parcel I received was a collection of 4 dresses, 2 t-shirts/pairs of shorts for boys, 4 girls' set and 6 undies from Lyn Granger.

Thank you Lyn, for your generous donations. Much appreciated.

Peru parcel sent today

The parcel to Peru (Dress Distribution #115) has been sent today and will probably take between 14-21 days to get there. Pictures of the distribution will be posted if and when they are available. Click here to access the postage receipt. 

Giving Tuesday - Sponsor a Dress to save lives in Vietnam

Today is Giving Tuesday especially in locations that celebrate Thanksgiving Day. Although we do not celebrate Thanksgiving Day the way our north american friends do, it still gives a feeling of goodness and kindness if we celebrate giving tuesday in our own special way. 

Want to make a difference but do not know how? Want to help break the cycle of poverty and give hope to those who desperately need it especially this Christmas.  Sponsor a dress and help save lives in Vietnam. There are still a lot of dresses to choose from and to sponsor all you have to do is click on the image below

or click on the link below -

Dress Sponsorship Program for families in Vietnam

Full proceeds from the sponsorship will be donated to the Christina Noble Children's Foundation for their Clean Water Tank project in Vietnam. Tax receipts will be issued in your name with your sponsorship amount shown as your donated amount. To know more about the Clean water tank project, please click on the image below -

or click on the link below.

Clean Water Tank Project for Vietnam 

Donating proceeds from the Dress Sponsorship program to the CNCF Clean Water project will run until the last day of December 2017 (Sunday, 31st of December, 2017). So come on board! Sponsor a Dress!

Share the Christmas spirit - Sponsor a Dress

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. 

~ Janice Maeditere

Well, Christmas is really just around the corner. Would you like to share the christmas spirit with disadvantaged kids? Sponsor a Dress. There are still lots of dresses and boys' sets to choose from. Proceeds from the sponsorship will be donated to the Christina Noble Childrens' Foundation to help make their Clean Water Tank Project for 100 families in Vietnam be a success. To sponsor a dress, please click on the link below -

Dress Sponsorship Program

If dress sponsorship is not your thing, you can still help raise the necessary funds by purchasing any of the fabric-mirror backed buttons that are for sale -

or the fabric covered button hairclips -

or any of the Betty Alderman patterns if you are into patchwork and quilting -

To check out these items or make a purchase, please click on any of the images above. Full proceeds from the purchase of any of these items will also be donated to the Foundation. A tax receipt will be issued in your name with the purchase amount as your donation amount. Share the spirit of Christmas and help save lives in Vietnam. Thank you.

Final Cut-off Date of Dresses - Nov 30, 2017

Just a friendly reminder for those who are still intending to donate dresses for the 2017 Christmas collection, the final cut-off date is this coming Thursday, 30th of November 2017. All dresses must be posted on or before this date. For postal address, please send me an email and.or message from my facebook page. Thank you.

Feedback Dress Distribution #114 - Vigan Phils - Nov 2017

I did this distribution when I visited Vigan, Ilocos Sur in the Philippines last week. These kids (21 girls and 5 boys from a day-care center) are indigent kids which were literally picked from classes that had indigent and non-indigent kids combined.

Thank you to the donors of these dresses that made this distribution possible. Thank you.

Dress Distribution #115 - Children of Peru

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.

Dress Distribution #114 for Vigan Philippines

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

Sponsor a Dress on World Kindness Day

‘My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.’ – Dalai Lama

Kindness starts with one 'dress'. help celebrate world kindness day by sponsoring a dress. let us shower these disadvantaged kids with dresses because we care about the world in which we live in. 'they wear because we care' especially this Christmas. To sponsor, just click on the image below -

or click on the link below . Thank you.

Dress Sponsorship Program on World Kindness Day

Final Cut-off date for dress donations - 30th of Nov 2017

Just a friendly reminder to everyone who wants to make a difference this Christmas and would like to donate dresses, the final cut-off date for dresses will be on Thursday, 30th of November 2017. All dresses should be posted on or before this cut-off date. This will be the last collection for the year 2017.

For those who do not have the time to sew but would like to share the spirit of Christmas, my Dress Sponsorship Program is available. Proceeds from the sponsorship will be donated to the Christina Noble Children's Foundation Australia for their Clean Water Tank Project for 100 families in Vietnam. To check out dresses available for sponsorship, please click on the link below -

Dress Sponsorship Program

To know more about the Christina Noble Children's Foundation Australia's clean water tank project for Vietnam, click on the link below.

CNCF's Clean Water Tank Project for Vietnam

Hit two birds with one stone before the year 2017 ends. Come on board. Sponsor a dress. Thank you.

Sponsor clothes to make a difference this Christmas

Just less than 2 months away and a lot of us are now starting to feel the spirit of Christmas in the air. Christmas is just around the corner. Have you included 'making a difference' this Christmas in your to-do list? Share the spirit of Christmas with the less fortunate and my dress sponsorship program will make it easy for you. In fact, you get to hit 2 birds with one stone with the program. Sponsor a dress and you get to help raise money for the CNCF's Clean Water Tank for Vietnam project and at the same time you get to make a difference to a life of a disadvantaged child by providing the child with new clothing. Come on board. Join the rest of us who are making a difference this Christmas and sponsor a dress. There are lots of clothes to choose from - all you have to do is click on the images below -
1) You can sponsor these 2 t-shirts/pairs of shorts set for boys with undies for $20.00 -

2) Or you can sponsor these 3 sets of peasant dresses for girls for  $25.00 -

 3) Another choice are these 3 pillowcase style of dresses with undies for $25.00 -

 4) or these set still with undies for $25.00 -

5) Or if you think one dress is enough to give away this Christmas, then you can sponsor this dress for $12.00 -

6) Or you can even sponsor a dress for a girl with undie and a t-shirt/pair of shorts also with undie for a boy for $22.00 if your thing is making a balance and that is make a difference between a disadvantaged boy and a disadvantaged girl -

Full proceeds of sponsorships will be donated to the Clean Water Tank project of the Christina Noble Children's Foundation (Australia) to help save lives for at least 100 families in Vietnam. Tax receipts will be issued in your name by the organization. So what are you waiting for. Come on board. Sponsor a dress or dresses or t-shirts/pair of shorts for boys and help break the cycle of poverty. Let us give hope to those who are desperately in need this coming Christmas. Let us help spread joy, hope and compassion. For more selections/choices of clothes to sponsor, click on the link below. Thank you.

Dress Sponsorship Program

To know more about the Clean Water Tank project and/or the Chistina Noble Children's Foundation (Australia), click on the link below. Thank you.

Clean Water Tank Project of CNCF

I will be travelling later this month to the Philippines and early next year to Bangkok so I will be handcarrying with me some of these dresses. Thank you.