Sunday 6th November we had our Volunteer day and WOW are we excited that next month we are going to ASSEMBLE 150 kits! Next volunteer day is Sunday 4th December please mark it in your diaries.
On Monday we had a TAISM Mom's sewing morning at Paula's house. This was the pilot for a morning session and it went very well. Thank you to the lovely mom's who came and made bags, cut pockets and serged / overlocked liners. We were so super busy that I forgot to take some photos!
Tuesday afternoon / evening was the second TAISM meet up. We were very busy getting pockets cut, ironed and stitched ready for the upcoming shields. Thankfully we had enough hands on deck to also get some drawstring bags threaded. It was a very productive session. We will be meeting next on Tuesday 29th 3.45pm in the HS commons.
Also the very active, social and lovely "Latino Ladies" were busy getting many bags made. These ladies know how to sew and iron like there is no tomorrow, they are like machines I tell you! Thank you ladies. Also some of the ladies attend a Yoga class and we were very honoured and grateful to receive a 50 rial donation from the class - such love, thank you so much. We will be purchasing some ladies size underwear with that money.
And now it is time for an update on how we are going towards our goal of 400 kits for Lebanon (we will update the 100 kits for Uganda at a later stage).
I am only listing fully completed components that I have here in stock ...
Drawstring Bags - we have 260 that is 65%
(I have 61 yet to thread that will bring it 80%)
Shields - we have 180 that is 22.5%
(I have 98 to be snapped that will bring it to 34.75%)
Washcloths - we have 410 that is 102%
Liners - we have 1,064 that is 33.25%
(another 100+ in the works)
Ziplocs - we have 1000 that is 125%
Underwear - we have 1152 that is 144%
(we will still need to get more because we have mostly girls sizes and the Lebanon kits will need more women's sizes).
Soaps - we have 1400 that is 350%
(we are still collecting them in case we have any extra weight allowance we will bring more to distributions).
All in all a fantastic effort in a working period of 6 months! I am so proud of each and every person who is contributing to our goal.
On a final note can I please ask if you are traveling and happen to see a travel size sewing kits in your hotel room, could you please collect them as we are thinking to bring some along with us on distributions so that girls and women in the field can use them at a later date just in case their kit needs a minor repair.
Thank you , to each and every one of you, for the amazing work you put in for our Days for Girls teams. I am proud and humbled. xxxx
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