The Week in Review

There is always so much happening every week that it is hard to keep up with how fast our chapter is moving and growing! 

Firstly, I would like to thank Tace for arranging a talk at the British School Muscat this past Thursday with the grade 10, 11, and 12 girls. We showcased Days for Girls and got them thinking about how lucky we are and also about some ways that they could help Days for Girls.

We will be represented at their International Day on April 5th where we hope to raise awareness and encourage participation.  I may need to source one or two people to assist with this booth as it falls during my children's Spring Break holidays and I might be away.  The session was over so soon that I forgot to take a picture, very sorry. 

We welcomed two new additions to our DfG family and  thank you to Anu at Abu Janan who gave us a wonderful discount.   Please meet SERGIO and OLLIE our two new sergers / overlockers. Nalini is earmarked to be trained up on one and the other will be loaned out to another volunteer to help us serge the liners.  MAGGIE and SALLY will be happy to have some company ;-) 

The big event of the week was the KIT PACKING finale at TAISM on Sunday 19th which was well attended, and I think we all felt such a sense of pride (and relief) to see those 100 kits for Uganda come together.  I really want to thank Cheryl and Keya for being the faculty sponsors and for pushing this project along. Amaranta was there to get us up and going and helping co-ordiante lots of goodies for the Bake Sales and to all the students who came and helped us iron, cut, fold, pack and sew and SELL lots of cakes too - you are all rockstars!!  Eglee and her amazing Latino sewing group who just kept pumping out drawstring bags for us, you ladies did it in style! And to the lovely Paula who serged until she could serge no more literally because we ran out fabric for her!), achieving no less than 645 liners - AMAZING!! Paula also arranged for ladies to sew at her house so we would have enough bags and also get the prep work done. Thank you to Frannie, Jamie, Ericka, Jennifer, Monica, Megan, Paige, Teresa, Lisa, Bridget and Rebecca, you all made such a difference.  A very big thank you to Mr Schaffer the Director at TAISM who supported us from the very beginning and who generously donated money, raised from last year's ball, so we can buy more flannel! 

At then end of the week we bit the bullet and made a large order of flannel so that we have enough to make all the components for the kits going off to Lebanon in May. It was very hard to press that SEND button and know that we were going to be paying so much for shipping but sadly this isn't the time of year when folks are traveling to the US as the break / holiday is too short.  Stay tuned ladies because in a couple of weeks there will be 176 yards of flannel to WASH and IRON!!!! 

NEXT WEEK ... on Wednesday 29th 9am - 12.30pm we will have a prep day at DfG HQ (a.k.a. my house, lol). We intend to cut shields, cut bags, and if I have anyone game enough also to DYE some underwear.

Coming up is the 10th Volunteer morning on April 2nd. We will be focusing on teaching our newbie serging ladies how to perfect the liners and also follow up with the newbie drawstring bag ladies from last volunteer day. There will be underwear to fold (yes those 700 pairs need rolling ladies) , snaps to be applied, sew@home kits to be packed, ribbon to be cut and ends singed, and fabric to be cut for bags. So as you can see plenty of jobs for sewing and non-sewing volunteers alike.  

Thanks for making it this far!  I hope you all have a great week.