We are back in action here in Muscat and today we had our 2nd Volunteer morning for the season.
Today we focused on teaching and stocktaking. Lise and Aria were kind enough to teach a new group of ladies how to sew the Days for Girls drawstring bag.
And Hina and Jane were over on the other side teaching our more experienced volunteers how to sew the shields.
Jane has graciously stepped up as the co-ordiantinor for Shields and we are actively looking for more ladies with some sewing experience to join this team so please if you know anyone or you are part of a quilters or sewers group passing on the word for us will be a great help. Alia and Jane also taught some of the new volunteers how to cut the fabric for the bags.
Helen and Jolanda had the serging ladies going full steam ahead progressing from straight serging which they all picked up very quickly last meet-up to rounding the corners and taking the liners from beginning to end. And thank you to Helen who will be co-ordianting the serging group.
Harsha who is going to be our co-ordiantor for the washcloths, ziplocs, soaps and underwear had the ladies counting and bundling items so we know where we are at how much we will need to acquire this year.
Claire, who is going to be co-ordinating our social media from next month, was snapping away and got all the shields finished and packed away. A great team effort.
The "Diehards" were busy over on the die cutter pumping out shield cuts, these ladies have this down to a fine art now and it is a joy to watch them in action.
And to all our other unsung heroes who come in and get down to work a huge thank you. Your work, enthusiasm and keenness to jump in where ever required was most appreciated.
Nalini, our book keeper and co-ordiantor for all things fabric (washing, pressing and getting them where they need to be) also did a great job sharing the Days for Girls message with our new volunteers. We had lots of lovely new volunteers today - again thank you all!
On a final note we are looking for volunteers to join us on January 19th for the 5KM Charity Walk as part of the Al Mouj Muscat Marathon. Each member will register and pay individually, the fee is 5 rial and goes to the Oman Diabetes Association. We will look at getting some T-Shirts available with the DfG Muscat logo on them and if I can convince anyone else maybe an orange tutu to go over our leggings / pants to attract attention to our lovely project.
It has been suggested that you can ask friends and family to sponsor you and that the proceeds from that can go towards purchasing DfG supplies like fabric, underwear etc. For example I might ask my friends and family to sponsor me per km, so if they say 1 rial per km then on completion of the walk I can collect 5 rial from them. But this is totally optional. Please note this is a walk and not competitive so please think about joining us!! Here is the link for registration.
https://muscatmarathon.om/race-categories/#1507444165354-e32946cc-65f0
Thanks for stopping by.
