On this particular morning we had organised to distribute to a couple of Lindi's contacts.
Always an interesting exercise because we need to allocate an extra hour always towards the inevitability of becoming hopelessly lost on the way to our venue
This was one of our few visits to the Alexandra which is a poor, angry area situated alongside one of the most affluent northern suburbs of Johannesburg and
For me, the KAS experience started nearly 2 years ago when I found the Website and started making squares. Recently retired, I had lots of time so I got stuck in - and it took over my life!
This was one of our few visits to the Alexandra which is a poor, angry area situated alongside one of the most affluent northern suburbs of Johannesburg and established as a dormitory township for maidservants and other workers serving local domestic
For this first edition of KAS Snippets 2016, I wish to welcome you all to another year of "snippets", all the little bits of news and anecdotes that make KAS the warm friendly place that it
This was our first visit ever to Bushkoppies, an area on the main N12 highway to the South Western mining areas of Gauteng and on the route I take every time to get to Lindi and Wandi's homes in Soweto.
This distribution took place with Wandi on 9th July.
Sanna is the wonderful woman who is responsible for running this daycare centre for the last 5 years. We first met her at a much earlier distribution in the Finetown area but it has taken us
We have been working with this Evaton Gogo group for about two years or so. Evaton is about 80 km from Johannesburg, so is always quite a mission to administer.
On 23rd April this year, Wendy and I we collected Wandi to drive to Braam Fischer Informal Settlement in Soweto, to visit "Buhlebemfundo" Day Care, run by Ntombi.
Just the day before, along the very route we were to take, a pregnant woman had been
As you can see from some of the photographs Thembalihle is a very dismal place and has sadly deteriorated since the previous Knit-a-Square visit in 2013. We met up with Maria, the main woman at Arise Pre-School, who explained that there are so many
It goes without saying that most of our distributions take place just prior to, and during winter. As a result, we have been holding back on reporting on distributions to ensure that we have “visual candy” to share with you all year around. However
In July last year we were joined by Rita and Mieke from Germany and university student, Blythe, for a distribution on what had to be the coldest day of our winter. We visited a large Day Care Centre in an extremely impoverished area called Kliptow
There are always so many exciting things on the go at this end of KAS and in this report I share with you a variety of stories, starting with a trip to prison – again!
Last year, Abegail Ndaba, one of our board members, made contact with Vivian Ledw