October 25th 2021

Thanks to those who brought sewing supplies for us to make up kits to include in our Disaster Aid boxes. It was much appreciated!

Early this Fall Judy Teichroew, Donna Dunford and I successfully filled 21 zipper pouches and included several of these in the 5 boxes that we packed with mostly baby and children’s new handmade clothing and blankets (quilts). These 5 large boxes totaled over 160 pounds and went out this past week.

 Disaster Aid has changed the way the volunteers gather to pack since the pandemic onset, and there are now 3 separate sites that do this work in preparation to send the cargo containers of pop up housing, water filtration, hygiene, medical supplies, education supplies, clothing and other essentials to disaster struck countries. Pictures sent recently convince me that this is much needed work. Whole villages and towns have been swept away by floods, earthquakes, tsunamis and the like.

Our donations are sent to the “Compassionate Resource Warehouse” in Ladysmith overseen by the local Rotary Club. There, the donations are gathered and sent to a central location where the cargo containers are packed for each geographical location set to receive them, and then shipped.

We were so pleased with the response to our request for extra sewing supplies over the summer that we plan to do this again, and hope to send out these kits along with each shipment of clothing and blankets, so if you have more needles, thread, pins, scissors etc etc…..we would love to have them! They can be dropped of at church or in the bin on the front steps.

Thank you!

Margaret Mills