This past two weeks has been crazy busy and I apologise for the delay in getting some of these posts up, it just doesn't appear that the clock is willing to slow down for me ;-)
On the 18th of October we had the "kick-off" for the new TAISM team. It is a group of TAISM parents / students / and faculty from the school who are donating their time to join the team and make kits.
The faculty sponsors are Cheryl Brown and Keya Lahiri who are helping from the sewing and awareness / donation / fund raising side. The parent leaders are Amaranta Buendia and myself.
We had our initial information session on the 18th which was very quickly followed on the 20th with a Bake Sale. The Bake Sale raised 310 rials which was completely mind blowing. We are so grateful to the parents who donated baked goods, and helped sell, and the students that came along to sell the goodies. We need about 6 rials to complete each kit.
This past Tuesday was our first "live" session. We were teaching the process of making the Drawstring Bags. I was so happy to see the students enthusiastic and having a great time while tracing, cutting, ironing and sewing.
Going forward we are proposing to change the timings a little. We will start at 3.45pm (I will be there 3.30pm setting up) until 6pm. That will allow the high schoolers that have to leave on the 5.10pm bus enough time to really get into their tasks. We will finish sewing and clean up at 5.45pm. We also hope that more ES Moms who are waiting for their children to finish ASA's might be able to join us.
Upcoming Dates... (These dates are not set in stone as we are trying to work around school commitments please check with us prior)
November 8th & 29th (was 22nd but it clashed with HS Band)
December 13th (6th is ES Noon Dismissal Rainbow Day)
Winter Break
January 10th & 24th
February 7th & 21st
March 14th & 21st (March 7th Board Meeting in HS Commons)
Spring Break
In addition to that we are proposing two mornings a month which will most likely be at somebody's house as we are not sure of any available space we could use at the school during the day. Please let Amaranta, Paula Bowlin or myself know if the morning times might suit you better.
The Days for Girls TAISM team have a goal of 100 kits which will be distributed to the Michelle & Julia Hoffman Memorial Children's Home and the Salem Home in Uganda before the summer break next year.
While these homes don't have the issues of girls missing school it does mean that by having these kits they don't need to allocate funds for disposable pads and they don't have the problems of waste disposal etc.
It is heart warming to see our Chapter increasing here in Oman. Ideally we want to get established in the local market, all in good time my friends, all in good time. Stay tuned!
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