Happy Mother's Day!

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

Sponsor a Dress this Mother's Day

Mother's Day is fast approaching and this would be a good time to help make a difference to lives of a few disadvantaged kids. Make mothers in disadvantaged places happy by sponsoring a dress for their little love ones. Here are a few selections to sponsor -
1) Peasant style of dresses good for locations where shoulders need to be covered (3x) for $25.00 -

2) Two sets of boys' clothes for $20.00 -

3) Pillowcase style of dresses (3x) for $25.00 -

More dress selections to sponsor can be found here. As originally intended and still is, proceeds from dress sponsorships will be used to pay for the cost of distributing dresses to children in disadvantaged locations. To know more details about my charity work and where sponsored dresses are going, please click here. Thank you.

Rosette Buttons for Mum

In two weeks we will be celebrating Mother's Day. Make it more special for your mums by making her wear a mother's day rosette button on her special day. A few selections of rosette buttons to choose from with and/or without streamers. 
1) Rosette buttons with streamers on sale at $7.50 each - click on the image below or click here to check them out.

2) Rosette buttons without streamers on sale at $6.95 each - click on the image below or click here to check them out.

Proceeds from the sale of these rosette buttons for mum will help pay for the cost of distributing dresses to disadvantaged children. Help make a difference to the lives of disadvantaged children. For more details on my charity work, please click here.

Enjoy Celebrating Easter

Donated T-shirt fabrics

Received these bundles of cotton fabrics which are great materials to make into t-shirts. Sending them to Monika M. who accepted my request to convert them into t-shirts. 

Thank you Monika. Much appreciated.

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/

Why not sponsor a dress today?

For $10.00 you get to change a life of a disadvantaged child. Why not sponsor a dress today. All you have to do is click on any of the images below.

Proceeds from the dress sponsorships will help pay for the cost of distributing dresses this year 2018. More selections are available in my online shop by clicking here.

Feedback from Dress Distribution #117 - Second parcel sent to South Africa

Here are a few pictures taken from the dress distribution made in South Africa from the second parcel sent in early January 2018.

To see larger images of the above, please click here. Thank you to Joan Adams for sharing these pictures. Much appreciated.

Feedback Dress Distribution #117 - Christmas for South Africa Parcel #2

Received an email today from South Africa confirming receipt of the second parcel I sent last January 18, 2018.

Also, Joan has advised that she could not send pictures of the distribution of the first parcel as they were damaged and blurry. This is for everyone's info especially those individuals and/or groups who contributed to the first parcel sent. To see a larger and more readable image of the above message from Joan Adams, please click here.

Acknowledgement of donation made to the Christina Noble Children's Foundation (Australia) for their Vietnam Project

Received an email today from the Christina Noble Children's Foundation (Australia) acknowledging the amount of $564.00 donated for their Clean Water Tank project in Vietnam. These donations came from Dress A Girl Australia's Dress Sponsorship Program. The amount donated will be able to provide almost four clean water tanks for the poor people in Vinh Long province.

To see a larger and more readable image of the above email, please click here. My heartfelt thank you to everyone who sponsored dresses and made the donation possible. Your generosity is much appreciated. Thank you.

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

Second parcel for South Africa sent today

The second parcel for South Africa (Dress Distribution #118) has been sent today. Fingers crossed there wont be any problems with this parcel now that the Christmas season is over. For postage details, click here.

Feedback Dress Distribution #118 - Christmas for Kenya

The parcel for kenya which had about 13 dresses only were delivered by my niece in Kibera in Kenya which is the largest slum area in the world. Since there were only 13 dresses I told her to give it to the most deserving disadvantaged kids and she decided that Kibera was the place to be. Since the place was very very big and she only had 13 dresses she decided to give it to a women's organisation which looks after the place. Here is our conversation regarding the dresses -

No pictures of the 13 dresses being handed to the children but she took pictures of the slum area.

I think it was a good idea to give the dresses to the women's organisation as they had a better idea as to who should be receiving them. I know how difficult it is to give dresses especially if you have not made a previous arrangement you do not know where to go so my heartfelt thanks to my niece for finding the time to find a place to deliver the parcel. Much appreciated.

Feedback Dress Distribution #116 - Christmas for South Africa Parcel #1

I received an email today from Joan Adams of Morning Star South Africa that the first parcel I sent to her last Dec 2017 has arrived safely.

Many thanks to Joan for letting me know. Now am ready to send to her the second parcel.

Sponsor Dresses for 2018 Distribution

A new year! A new dress! Sponsor a dress and/or boys' clothes for distribution in 2018.  New items for sponsorships will be added soon but there are still several choices left such as this two sets of 4-year-old boys clothes'  with undies which you can sponsor for $20.00 -

or these 3 peasant dresses with undies for girls aged between 6-8 which you can sponsor for $25.00 -

or maybe you would prefer a school dress kit to help an 8 year-old disadvantaged girl prepare herself for a new school year. For $12.00 you get to include school supplies with a new dress and undie -

Click on any of the images above to check them out and sponsor! Let us make this world a better place in 2018 and your sponsorship will definitely be a big help towards that goal. Thank you.

Feedback Dress Distribution #111 - Christmas Distribution for Sri Lanka

I have been advised that the dresses Dress A Girl Australia donated to Network Heaven to be included in their 2017 Christmas Distributions in Sri Lanka have now been distributed. Because the dresses, t-shirts, pairs of shorts for the boys, undies, totes, exercise books and school supplies were just a part of a very big and major distribution of the Network Heaven organization in Sri Lanka, I do not think I will be able to manage to share specific pictures of the dresses to the donors but please click on the link below that will take you to their facebook page where pictures have been posted. Thank you.

Network Heaven Facebook Page

Dress A Girl Australia is happy to support disadvantaged kids in Sri Lanka through Network Heaven.

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.

Happy New Year to All!

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

~ George Eliot