The gogo groups have done a WONDERFUL job this year and we are really into a good stride with up to 8 groups who are diligent and reliable and LOVE helping KAS. We have distributed 6,000 blankets which is much greater
Read more…TINY'S CRECHE IN ALEXANDRIA
There is not actual report for this distribution! Tiny's Creche was just over the road from Mmakwenadi and as there were enough blankets left over, rather than take them back to our offices it was decided to distribute t
Read more…In January 2016 Knit-a-Square delivered blankets to
HAPPY FEET DAY CARE CENTRE BUSHKOPPIES
run by Ernest and Eadith Segelberg
KAS Link : Report from South Africa
Ronda Lowrie, co-founder of Knit-a-Square, believes that informal crèches are sorely u
Read more…GOGO and OPERATIONAL NEWS
The gogo groups have done a WONDERFUL job this year and we are really into a good stride with up to 8 groups who are diligent and reliable and LOVE helping KAS. We have distributed 6,000 blankets which is much greater th
Read more…I’m delighted to have been asked by the Mods to host this month’s theme. This is the month when we relax and have fun using up all those little bits and pieces of yarn that we’ve been saving all year. After all, if you have some of this:
You can
Read more…The December 2016 Squares List is available
Please visit the website:
Click on 'Received Squares'
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Important Reminder:
IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE TAKE GREAT
Lovely photos from
And more from a distribution to
Mabel's church group offered to take and distribute more than 200 blankets to children in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho, a place of great beauty, wonderful birdli
Read more…THE WONDERFUL SORTING TEAM MEMBERS TURN UP WEEK AFTER WEEK
AND PROVIDE US WITH A GLIMPSE OF ARRIVING PARCELS, AND, SOME OF THE GOODIES THEY CONTAIN!
Fabulous photos of happy children after the
And more from a distribution to
MMAKWENADI Day Care
If you want to see evidence of your generosity, you only need to look at what's being
and the
Read more…The Square Heart Award
December 2016
Goes to
All of you wonderful crafters and suppporters
Every month when I prepare the Square Heart Award with the help of the mods we are thinking of our other contributors who do so much for us and are also de
Read more…Ronda and Jostina, one of our "private" sewing ladies - a domestic worker in the suburb of Norwood, visited Alexandra on several occasions in 2016 and on this day we distributed at Mmakwenadi Day Care.
This crèche is run by Lena and Johanna, w
Read more…PRETTY PASTELS
We all know how our eye is immediately attracted to bright, strong colours, but this month I would like you to think about the shrinking violet, the gentle yellow cowslip or the pale green euphorbia.
Maybe they don't have the sam
Read more…THE SQUARE HEART AWARD
SEPTEMBER 2016
Thank you Kiran for the Square Heart.
GOES TO
KIRAN SINGH
from USA
Kiran joined us in 2013 and she has regularly contributed beautiful, neat and colourful squares for the blankets, and who could forget her
Read more…Hallo Ronda
A very heart felt thank you for all the wonderful gifts received from you. These were all handed out to children based in Hillbrow at the last Kidsweek Holidat Program.
As you can see the children were delighted.
Kind Regards
Erica
Read more…Mabel's church group offered to take and distribute more than 200 blankets to children in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho, a place of great beauty, wonderful birdlife and extreme cold in winter; a place the world has not truly reached in terms of mo
Read more…You can find magic wherever you look
Sit back and relax, all you need is a book. (Dr. Seuss)
Little Libraries (LL) was started in 2013 by Camille Quine as an act of kindness to one school and was not intended as a project but, like KAS and Topsy,
Joint Aid Management
JAM SA operates in Gauteng, Eastern Cape, Kwazulu-Natal, Limpopo and the Western Cape.
• JAM SA supplies more than 50,000 children in over 1,000 day care centers with a fortified Corn, Sugar, Soya + (CSS) 50g portion of porri
The Mama Ntombi’s Community Projects (MNCP) was founded in 2007 and is caring for about 450 children at the Jika Joe and Ezinketheni Informal Settlements.
Knit-a-Square has networked with Mama N'tombi Community Projects for several years now, and h
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A community based project where children are encouraged to collect, sort and deliver “recyclable junk” to a central point and exchange it for tokens.
They can then use the tokens to “shop
