Dresses for Nepal by Siobhan and Anna

This is Dress Distribution #42 for the children of Nepal through the kindness and generosity of Siobhan Leyne and Anna Dacre. Between the two of them they have sewn 37 dresses and these dresses are currently travelling to the Sunrise Children's Association in Nepal to be distributed to 3-15 year old girls in the orphanage sponsored by the association. 

These dresses were handcarried by a group from Canberra who volunteered to renovate a school this month of October in Southern Nepal. Their contact in the group is happy to make a delivery in Jiri where they were going to do their volunteer work. 

Well done Siobhan and Anna. Thank you so much! And thank you to the volunteers who handcarried the dresses. So much appreciated. 

Feedback from Nepal

A couple of pictures with a few dresses (I think I recognize 3 of them) sent to Nepal through Cara Clarke of Clothes for Nepal.

Feedback I received was that the children were very, very happy when they received the dresses. Some of them are saving their dresses to wear on a special festival in September similar to a Christmas festival. These children treasure the dresses so much they only want to wear them in very special occasions. It reminds me of what I used to do and feel whenever I had a new dress in my younger days or even now. I just want to keep on looking and touching the dress and dont want to wear it for fear it may get dirty or ruined. :-)

Thank you to Cara Clarke for making this dress distribution in Nepal possible. Thanks a whole lot!

Dress Distribution #27 - 50 dresses for the 'Clothes for Nepal campaign

I know I need more dresses but when Karin Maltby sent me a message about the Clothes for Nepal campaign of Cara Clark of QLD I could not ignore. To support her on her campaign, I allocated 50 dresses and sent off to her yesterday morning. (Am I lucky that the postoffice in the suburb where I live is open on Saturday mornings and is only about 5 minutes away from where I live by car.)

Here are the 50 dresses -

that were inside this parcel - ((I wiped out the address from the picture for privacy reasons).

made possible by the following donors -
1) Holly Landman
2) Ladies of Kapunda Sewing Group, South Australia
3) Ruby Schalk
4) Linda Smyth
5) Karin Maltby and group from Perth
6) Helen Shearer
7) Hobart Embroidery Club and others, Tasmania
8) Two Bettys (Betty Barrett and Betty Paull)
9) Claudia and Sarah Petrie
10) Monika Osvald
11) Gaylene Herrmann
12) Amanda Sampson (sewn by Katherine Nott)
13) Katherine Nott
14) The Sewing Library facebook group
15) Heather Harris
16) Hiroko Price
17) Dress A Girl Australia

For larger images of the items, please click here. For more details on the dress distribution, please click here or on the 'Dress Distribution' tab which can be found at the top of this page.

Heaps and heaps of thanks to the donors who made this distribution possible. Thank you all for your kindness and generosity. And a very special thank you from the bottom of my heart to Jennifer Howlett for providing financial support on the cost of sending the parcel. Thank you Jennifer. Much appreciated.

Thank you everyone for helping make a difference....one small dress at a time!