Happy New Year 2019

Wishing everyone a new year of health, peace and contentment. Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Gladness of Christmas : Hope

Spirit of Christmas : Peace

Heart of Christmas : Love

Wish this Christmas : A world of hope, peace and love where everyone is safe and free.

Have a Merry Christmas everyone!!

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Dress A Girl Australia is feeling thankful to everyone. 🙏

No dress collections this year for Christmas distribution

Unfortunately there will be no dress collections for Christmas distribution this year. A quick collection will be made sometime in Feb 2019 to be handcarried by me for March distribution. More details will be made available the nearer the target date. Thank you.

Feedback on Dress Distribution #113 - Siem Reap Cambodia

This picture was taken at the Home of Joy Orphanage of the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa Sisters) in Siem Reap Cambodia when my friends and I delivered a parcel of 25 handmade dresses for the children in their orphanage. In the picture is the head of the orphanage and a lay missionary(far left) working in Phnom Penh and was visiting Siem Reap at the time we visited to attend a retreat. Due to a very tight schedule (the orphanage was actually closed when we went) the sisters will make the actual distribution of the dresses on my behalf.

As a donation to the orphanage and the parish church which was about 4 blocks away from the orphanage, I bought this wooden replica of the Virgin Mary wearing a Khmer attire and was blessed by the parish priest. 

I was told that Cambodians are well gifted in the art of wood crafts. The parish church provides a place for these local artisans to showcase their talents while at the same time earn an honest income from the works of their hands. The parish church was not your typical catholic church you see/observed everywhere around the world. They had no church pews as everyone attending a mass sat on the floor. They have merged their local culture to the way they practice the catholic religion. The statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary was dressed in a traditional Khmer attire and their tabernacle in the altar was shaped like a traditional Khmer house. I was glad I made the time to visit the orphanage and the church.

One day when you get the chance to visit Siem Reap, you should visit their church and the orphanage. The places are easy to find as they are located about 5mins walk from the Angkor National Museum.

And sharing with you a perfect picture of sunrise at Angkor Wat. This was about 6am in the morning. What a beauty and certainly not to be missed when you visit Siem Reap Cambodia.

Happy Mother's Day!

To all the mothers out there....Happy Mother's Day!!!

Enjoy Celebrating Easter

Volunteers needed to sew dresses and/or library bags

Network Heaven which is a ministry of the French Forest Baptist church is in need of volunteers to sew t-shirt dresses and/or dresses with sleeves and library bags for girls in Sri Lanka. For more details please contact Anne Salvador-Dunlop on email address anne_Salvador@yahoo.com or mobile number 0409-329-096. To know more about their charity work, please click on the link below -

http://networkheaven.org/

The Science of Kindness - The world we all want...and starts with just one

2017 Statistics - Dress A Girl Australia

This is Dress A Girl Australia's Distribution statistics for 2017. In total since 2011, I have provided 9,543 dresses for girls, 1908 boys' shorts, 1091 t-shirts, 149 quilts and 27 leggings. For the year 2017, I have distributed 267 dresses only, 10 pairs of shorts for boys and 31 t-shirts plus 91 totes.

Distributions were made to the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Peru, Pakistan and South Africa. Thank you to all the dress donors and dress sponsors for making the numbers for 2017 possible and for the dress sponsors for helping make the distribution possible.