July was a busy month for KAS and we had multiple distributions.
Sadly, we don't always have a verbal story for the distributions, but thankfully, we receive lots of photos from these distributions.
These first photos show a distribution from Wandi.
Read more…On Christmas Eve 2019, Athele and Larry (her finance) drove over 300 km to Clarens to distribute about 100 blankets to the children. This area is the coldest part of South Africa because of the high altitude. Free State Province is where we just st
Read more…The first week of February Athele and Estellle revisited Kya Sands Informal Settlement to distribute another 100 blankets to the children. We hope you enjoy Athele's account and her marvelous pictures.
From Athele:
Some of the dear little children o
Read more…REPORT FROM RONDA
The ladies have been working quite hard recently, trying to fulfil the
"orders" for distributions in their areas.
Three crèches’ here done by Viv (1) and Mabel (2) during
the last two weeks.
And you will see that both are making g
This from Alice Latha who we met in July during the Monontsha distribution:
Dear Knit a square I would love to Thank you so much, we made it again with Mabel. We managed to dress another 100 kids in Zamdela, (Free State) last weekend. Most of childre
Read more…On Friday October 25, Athele loaded up her little blue car with the help and Mandy and got ready to drive to Pietermaritzburg, Kua Zulu-Natal 499 KM/320 miles, to the southeast of Randburg where the KAS Barn is located. Her fiance joined her on thi
Read more…Knit a Square is planning its first ever mass distribution of blankets on April 6 this year. You may have read about this in Leanne's Blog That Warm Fuzzy Feeling. We want to give you some more information about this endeavor and have a discussio
Read more…Apologies, no details regarding the photographs - some of which were found on an old camera! All we know is that the three distributions took place from 6th March 2018 onwards with Wandi, Vivienne, Lindi & Thomas
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a photograph of a fire-shack f
Read more…Our precious Mabel has been very busy with distributions lately.
Here are some photos from some very successful distributions with happy children.
In the middle of October 2019, Nani had a marvelous distribution to this bright and sunny day care.
Not only did the children receive the normal KAS package, they received jumpers/sweaters and a treat call Big Korn Bites.
The children are so inter
Read more…One of our many distributions in July was made by Nani at the Sunshine Daycare.
Here are some fantastic photos capturing all the excitement.
On November 27 Athele made a very moving distribution in a nearby neighborhood. Here is her account and photos from Facebook. You will see beautiful children, their living conditions and their gratitude for being cared for by others.
Wednesday morn
Read more…Eikenhof is about 25 km from our KAS Barn in Randburg.
We first visited this daycare center in Eikenhof in 2015 with the support of our driver at the time Joel. This area is extremely poor and well outside of Soweto. Here is the link to the 2015 Di
Read more…Here are some very touching photos from a recent distribution by Themba. Themba has many roles for KAS; taxi driver for getting ladies to the barn on Tuesday, mail pick up person on Mondays, escort for distributions and now he is making distribution
Read more…From Ronda:
And every year around this time we receive an appeal for blankets from
Cheryl and Myer Pincus who are supporting a very poor school, in a very poor
area, named Saulsport for up in the North West of SA.
The blankets were for pre-school kid
Read more…Wandi recently went to Delmas, 77 km away from the Barn to make two special deliveries.
We hope you enjoy her photos.
Warrenton is about 262 miles from the KAS Barn in Randburg. It is a village just north of Kimberley which is Vivienne's hometown, and located in the North Cape Province of South Africa. Know that your KAS Shop purchase of Distribution Support helpe
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