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Latest email from Greenfields Charity: This is very important and was received only a few days ago.
"Our container is on the road to the docks as I write. It will be loaded on to a container ship next week and begin the journey to Mombassa. The next shipment will be in March or April.
Barbara and I are going to Africa on 15th January. Carol, a trustee who looks after admin., is accompanying us. Carol is a trained nurse, and will spend most of her time in the Kakamega rain forest where our clinic is situated. Barbara and I will split our time between Kenya and Uganda.
This means that we will not be here to accept deliveries from 7 Jan until 1st March. PLEASE INFORM ALL YOUR MEMBERS. The post office only keeps undelivered parcels for a couple of weeks or so before returning to sender. This would be a tragedy in terms of wasted money."
Important News: Tiny Vests no longer required by Greenfields Charity but other items, especially blankets, are still needed. Please see the Patterns page. We are actively pursuing other avenues to ensure that all tiny vests already knitted go to a place where they are needed, so please watch this space! In the meantime, please do not start any new vests, and let your friends know of the new developments. Thank you so much.
20th November 2012: I'm Brian Hatton from Greenfields Africa.
We have been accepting these vests and hats for a couple of months, but have been inundated with them and they are now causing us problems because our operation is not based around these vests, We stopped our people from knitting them 2 years ago. They were designed for babies born with AIDS who were not expected to live beyond a few weeks, so the one garment was all they needed for their very short lives. Retroviral drugs administered to the pregnant mums have been very successful and the babies are now expected to enjoy what passes there as a normal life. We give out mama bags to ladies in their last month of pregnancy. A mama bag contains a baby grow, 2 cotton vests, a hat, a cardigan, plus vaseline, soap, latex gloves for the birth (baby will be born in a mud hut). to this we can add a couple of Fish & Chip vests for the first few weeks of life. We ask people to knit as for UK babies: their needs are pretty well identical. To qualify for a mama
bag, the mum is expected to have attended our antenatal facility 3 times. This enables them to be screened for AIDS and to give advice to help lower infant mortality rates.
Because these vests have been lovingly knitted in a pure act of faith, and because so many people will be disappointed, we will do our best to get them into Africa, but we have a big imbalance. We need more cardigans etc to go with them. Above all, we never have enough blankets to go round. These are made from 6 inch knitted squares to make up a yard (metre) square then edged.
We are negotiating for extra storage, which is not cheap, and there are other calls on our funds - we have a primary health care centre in Kenya, and other community projects in Kenya and Uganda.
To this end, we ask our knitters to see if they can help out with shipping costs.It runs out at roughly 20-25 pence per garment. Please note. we do not make it a condition for accepting your knitting. We are very grateful for the difference you are making to the lives of disadvantaged people living in extremes of poverty: but if you can help with a donation to shipping costs, we will be for ever grateful. We know that some groups are planning coffee mornings etc to raise funds, and some are charging group members a small subscription. We thank you all. Together we can make a vast difference to the life chances of these unfortunate babies.
Please look on our website: www.gfafrica.com - you can download our patterns from there.
God bless you and all your group members.
Brian.
Facebook
Visit our facebook page.
Do please feel free to join and pass on details to friends - it's very encouraging to feel part of a community of like-minded people.
Moving on! Photo Pages now being added!
We are delighted to be able to tell you that we are now linked to an organisation called Greenfields Africa run by Brian and Barbara Hatton who are based in Market Drayton, Shropshire. You can read all about their work in Africa on his own website which you will find here.
Brian has kindly agreed to include our knitting with his regular shipments to Kampala, Uganda for a very modest donation towards shipping costs. If you are one of our regular knitters in the Almería or Málaga areas of Spain, you may continue to leave your outfits at the designated collection points.
Brian packs boxes regularly every fortnight and he is happy to accept smaller personal packages from knitters in the UK as well as our larger consignments from Spain. Please be aware that there are many people looking for an outlet for these jumpers so he could find himself with more than he expected, indeed more than he can afford to ship. So please, even if you are sending only a small parcel, do if possible, tape a coin or two to your knitting towards his costs. As a guideline it works out at around 15p per outfit to ship. Alternatively you can make a donation via the giving page on his website. Thank you for understanding this. We would not want his kindness in accepting our work to become a burden to him.
Brian has sent us some wonderful photos. Please see the Photos page- you might even spot some your own garments!
Donations from log sales
Elliot Cripps from ecs-services.eu is donating €5 from every sale of logs to a charity, one of which is Knit For Africa. Buy your logs from him this winter and help babies in Africa at the same time!
203 sets on their way to Africa!
July 8th 2012. Donna and Kate (left) and 203 sets ready to go to African babies, via the UK!
Tony from JT Transport (pictured right) has offered to take them to the UK from Spain, where they will be sent to Africa. Thanks to all who have given time, money and effort to help 203 newborn babies take one small step out of poverty.
July 2012 - Over 100 sets from Málaga region!
Some of the wonderful ladies from the Malaga region with over 100 knitted jumpers and hats, ready to be sent out. July 2012. Thanks to all of you!
May 2012 - Eighty sets of clothes sent to UK!
Here is a picture of the eighty sets of jumpers and hats that Kate took to the UK on17th May.
Thanks to all who have contributed, you are fantastic!
Please keep on knitting because we will send another consignment later in the year.
From tiny acorns mighty
oak trees grow.
Read Kate's blog post about how the appeal has started and taken off here in Spain.
Latest email from Greenfields Charity: This is very important and was received only a few days ago.
"Our container is on the road to the docks as I write. It will be loaded on to a container ship next week and begin the journey to Mombassa. The next shipment will be in March or April.
Barbara and I are going to Africa on 15th January. Carol, a trustee who looks after admin., is accompanying us. Carol is a trained nurse, and will spend most of her time in the Kakamega rain forest where our clinic is situated. Barbara and I will split our time between Kenya and Uganda.
This means that we will not be here to accept deliveries from 7 Jan until 1st March. PLEASE INFORM ALL YOUR MEMBERS. The post office only keeps undelivered parcels for a couple of weeks or so before returning to sender. This would be a tragedy in terms of wasted money."
Important News: Tiny Vests no longer required by Greenfields Charity but other items, especially blankets, are still needed. Please see the Patterns page. We are actively pursuing other avenues to ensure that all tiny vests already knitted go to a place where they are needed, so please watch this space! In the meantime, please do not start any new vests, and let your friends know of the new developments. Thank you so much.
20th November 2012: I'm Brian Hatton from Greenfields Africa.
We have been accepting these vests and hats for a couple of months, but have been inundated with them and they are now causing us problems because our operation is not based around these vests, We stopped our people from knitting them 2 years ago. They were designed for babies born with AIDS who were not expected to live beyond a few weeks, so the one garment was all they needed for their very short lives. Retroviral drugs administered to the pregnant mums have been very successful and the babies are now expected to enjoy what passes there as a normal life. We give out mama bags to ladies in their last month of pregnancy. A mama bag contains a baby grow, 2 cotton vests, a hat, a cardigan, plus vaseline, soap, latex gloves for the birth (baby will be born in a mud hut). to this we can add a couple of Fish & Chip vests for the first few weeks of life. We ask people to knit as for UK babies: their needs are pretty well identical. To qualify for a mama
bag, the mum is expected to have attended our antenatal facility 3 times. This enables them to be screened for AIDS and to give advice to help lower infant mortality rates.
Because these vests have been lovingly knitted in a pure act of faith, and because so many people will be disappointed, we will do our best to get them into Africa, but we have a big imbalance. We need more cardigans etc to go with them. Above all, we never have enough blankets to go round. These are made from 6 inch knitted squares to make up a yard (metre) square then edged.
We are negotiating for extra storage, which is not cheap, and there are other calls on our funds - we have a primary health care centre in Kenya, and other community projects in Kenya and Uganda.
To this end, we ask our knitters to see if they can help out with shipping costs.It runs out at roughly 20-25 pence per garment. Please note. we do not make it a condition for accepting your knitting. We are very grateful for the difference you are making to the lives of disadvantaged people living in extremes of poverty: but if you can help with a donation to shipping costs, we will be for ever grateful. We know that some groups are planning coffee mornings etc to raise funds, and some are charging group members a small subscription. We thank you all. Together we can make a vast difference to the life chances of these unfortunate babies.
Please look on our website: www.gfafrica.com - you can download our patterns from there.
God bless you and all your group members.
Brian.
Visit our facebook page.
Do please feel free to join and pass on details to friends - it's very encouraging to feel part of a community of like-minded people.
Moving on! Photo Pages now being added!
We are delighted to be able to tell you that we are now linked to an organisation called Greenfields Africa run by Brian and Barbara Hatton who are based in Market Drayton, Shropshire. You can read all about their work in Africa on his own website which you will find here.
Brian has kindly agreed to include our knitting with his regular shipments to Kampala, Uganda for a very modest donation towards shipping costs. If you are one of our regular knitters in the Almería or Málaga areas of Spain, you may continue to leave your outfits at the designated collection points.
Brian packs boxes regularly every fortnight and he is happy to accept smaller personal packages from knitters in the UK as well as our larger consignments from Spain. Please be aware that there are many people looking for an outlet for these jumpers so he could find himself with more than he expected, indeed more than he can afford to ship. So please, even if you are sending only a small parcel, do if possible, tape a coin or two to your knitting towards his costs. As a guideline it works out at around 15p per outfit to ship. Alternatively you can make a donation via the giving page on his website. Thank you for understanding this. We would not want his kindness in accepting our work to become a burden to him.
Brian has sent us some wonderful photos. Please see the Photos page- you might even spot some your own garments!
Donations from log sales
Elliot Cripps from ecs-services.eu is donating €5 from every sale of logs to a charity, one of which is Knit For Africa. Buy your logs from him this winter and help babies in Africa at the same time!
203 sets on their way to Africa!
July 8th 2012. Donna and Kate (left) and 203 sets ready to go to African babies, via the UK!
Tony from JT Transport (pictured right) has offered to take them to the UK from Spain, where they will be sent to Africa. Thanks to all who have given time, money and effort to help 203 newborn babies take one small step out of poverty.
July 2012 - Over 100 sets from Málaga region!
Some of the wonderful ladies from the Malaga region with over 100 knitted jumpers and hats, ready to be sent out. July 2012. Thanks to all of you!
May 2012 - Eighty sets of clothes sent to UK!
Here is a picture of the eighty sets of jumpers and hats that Kate took to the UK on17th May.
Thanks to all who have contributed, you are fantastic!
Please keep on knitting because we will send another consignment later in the year.
From tiny acorns mighty
oak trees grow.
Read Kate's blog post about how the appeal has started and taken off here in Spain.