Hello KASers...
Wow! Busy times!. Ronda was in Cape Town last week, as most of you know, having a well-deserved break. She spent lots of time with Sian, my sister (her OTHER daughter) and her little ones (Luca, 3, Gemma, 1 and another little girl due to make her debut in late October, early November) and also spent time with our beloved Pete's wife and two youngest children who all live in CT too.
While Ronda was away we have been trying to keep up with some opening (Whew!) and Lindi, Wandi and I went to Slovoville to visit Sizanani Day Care and give the children some blankets, beanies, go-overs and sweaters. Please keep an eye out for the e-zine, coming soon, where Sandy will tell you all about our visit and will give you lots fo wonderful pics to look at . In the meantime, I am going to post a group pic of the children, SO happy with their beautiful, colourful blankets and beanies. Another cold front has hit us this week so I am SO happy that we got there last week and that they are a little more equipped than they may otherwise have been. Brrrrrrrr!
Thursday tomorrow so we meet at KAS JHB headquarters (aka, Ronda's lounge) for an opening session with Lindi and Wandi. Will take a few pics to post later in the week.
Chat soon
xoxo
E
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Mandy
On May 12, Erin wrote " I am inclined to agree with Sandy in that providing these little ones with one of our blankets may be more sustainable in the long run as it would be sort of 'multifunctional'. The blankets we have given them are all quite large and would definitely be able to be wrapped around a little person so that there was a bit of insulation underneath them as well as over them when they lie down to nap...... In the long run, once our funding programme around the creches is up and running, we would really like to buy proper, insulated sleeping mats and or sort out proper flooring perhaps"
It might be more practical to purchase these mats in SA . The cost of mailing may well be prohibitive, and the sheer logistics of keeping things fair - so everyone in in a creche gets a mat - might complicate life for Ronda and Erin until they have more on the ground help.
As far as the plastic bag mats go - I suggest we forget it. We collect these milk bags at our church - I help sort and fold them every week. They are passed on to a lady who makes these mats and is trying to find others to help make them. Once made, they are taken to a Lutheran group in Ontario which uses them as packing material for medecines they are shipping..... so once they arrive, someone uses the sleeping mats.
It takes 350 bags to make one 24x36" mat - they are very hard to crochet (I tried and gave up - too heavy, too scratchy), they weigh a ton, and they are rough enough that the kids would still need to be swaddled in one of our blankets to be comfortable.
Jeanne
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