Early in June we headed off to Othandweni Day Care Centre, in Finetown. We have found that when we start distributing in a new area, the word spreads and principals of all the other local Day Cares come forward asking for blankets, which might expla
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REPORTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA
NO REPORTS FROM RONDA AT THE MOMENT
Other recent reports :We're on TOP of it!
Message from Ronda and Mandela Day 2015
however, we do have a heart-felt report from Gloria Grandy which outlin
Read more…APOLOGIES, DUE TO TECHNICAL ISSUES, RONDA WAS NOT ABLE TO POST THIS REPORT DIRECTLY!
In June we visited a small Day Centre in Finetown – the Good Hope Day Care Centre and found it easily with the large sign outside!
It was unusually warm (al
Read more…This was our first visit to the area known as Eikenhof - far south of
Johannesburg and east of Soweto proper.
We had been introduced to the area by our volunteer driver, Joel, who brings Lindi, Wandi (and now Mabel) to KAS volunteer days every Tu
Read more…What better way for me to spend my birthday last year, than doing exactly what I love, wrapping children in warm blankets and sharing with them hope and love for the future.
Bright and early on the 12th August 2014, Wendy, Estelle, Wandi and I heade
Read more…Our thanks to Anne Powell for pulling this information together!
ALSO
Sharon Fenell and Louise Tidman have gone through the lengthy financial statements and come up with this concise summary. Thanks, Ladies!
We have received a copy of the full annua
Read more…When Ronda put out the call for squares, she had no idea how much love would come pouring in from all over the world. In the beginning, it was manageable. She worked from her home, had a few volunteers, and used her own vehicle to make distribution
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We have been working with this Evaton Gogo group for about two years or so. Evaton is about 80 km from Johannesburg, so is always quite a mission to administer.
On this occasion we met Mabel for the first time.
She initially sent a me
At the end of May, Wendy and I were invited to Buccleuch Primary School to accept more than 80 blankets that the children had knitted as part of their English curriculum. The timing was perfect – just ahead of mid-winter and the blankets were distri
Read more…Following Helen's successful 'gogo blanket appeal', Ronda thought our contributors might be interested to meet some of the gogo groups! Warts and All!
CHIAWELO
Our foundation group, from Chiawelo, some of whom also participated in the MedLemon knit
Read more…From our early days of receiving eight parcels a week, Knit-A-Square South Africa has grown to the point where we collect, on average, a truck load of mail from the Post Office on a weekly basis. In July of this year we received 27 513 squares alone
Read more…In July last year we were joined by Rita and Mieke from Germany and university student, Blythe, for a distribution on what had to be the coldest day of our winter. We visited a large Day Care Centre in an extremely impoverished area called Kliptow
Read more…Hello dear members
Knit-a-Square South Africa has some news that we believe everyone is will be interested to hear …
Today (Tuesday 11th) we will be moving downstairs in the same office block … to a bigger office on the GROUND floor. We are excited
Read more…Green Village is on the way to Tshepisong which we know quite well now, but still we managed to get hopelessly lost on the way there!
Lindi had arranged this distribution with the help of Sibongile, who works with the children at Thubelisha and had
Read more…It goes without saying that most of our distributions take place just prior to, and during winter. As a result, we have been holding back on reporting on distributions to ensure that we have “visual candy” to share with you all year around. However
Read more…At our board meeting at the end of February, I asked the members to speak of their own individual “vision” for the future of KAS … and then, quite unexpectedly, I blurted out my own unrehearsed thoughts and was bowled over by the enthusiastic respons
Read more…Towards the end of May, Gina arranged three distributions through the Morester Children’s Home, a Christian faith based organisation situated in the towns of Ladysmith and Newcastle in KwaZulu Natal. The vision of Morester is to “give children a hom
Read more…Each year, Mandela Day is supported by more and more people all over the world. This year was no different and Knit-A-Square South Africa was involved in more projects than ever before.
We hope you enjoy this photo and caption report of what ended
Read more…The last distribution I reported back on was Evergreen Day Care in Finetown where we were joined by Annette and her son Luke and nephew Eric. With all the extra help that day, we were actually able to do two other distributions in Finetown.
After l
Read more…Ronda and the team continue to bring us wonderful photographs of the children receiving their blankets, hats and garments. Along with many story snippets of their experiences at the various centres. These photographs confirm to the world that by tak
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