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I´m just gonna introduce myself now:
My name is Jana, I live in Germany and I´ve just finished my 4th square for KAS. Not much yet but I promise I´ll make more.

I love the idea of KAS because I love knitting and crochet, I love helping children and I love South Africa. I lived in Johannesburg as an exchange student when I was 16 and aside from the great landscape and wanderful people the one thing I´ll never forget about my time there is how cold the winter was. I think a lot of people think of SA as warm country because that is just the image we have of Africa in general but it get´s really cold. When I was there I slept with a heating blanket, something I´d never done before nor after (and I grew up in a village that has the word "cold" in it´s name!). I also remember me and my "sister" and a friend sitting in the kitchen with the oven on and the oven door open because that was the only way to stay warm...
So just the thought of something small that I made keeping a child warm makes me very happy. This is a great organisation and you are all amazing people for doing what you are doing!

So, here is a picture of my first 4 squares along with some of the little toys I´m gonna send. (Question: the little squid, crab and starfish are finger-puppets. Do you think it´s a good idea to send them? Maybe not for an individual child but maybe for a daycare or something?)

Oh, and I hope it´s okay but I wrote about KAS on my Blog (you can find the post here. It doesn´t have a lot of readers (yet) but maybe someone stumbles across it and finds their way here as well. If it´s not okay or you need me to change anything about it let me know.