~ Charity Links ~

www.dreamkingdomdesigns.com/preemiebaby.htmlOur present mission is to deliver handmade items for premature babies and children in crises due to physical illness or emotional distress.
These items are given to hospitals, shelters, local support groups, maternity homes, children's homes,individuals, etc.

Heartfelt Donations-Helping Grimsby, Ontario Stay Warm April 2007
Heartfelt Donations collects new hand knit or crocheted items and distributes them to areas of need in Grimsby, Ontario.
Items collected are baby layettes and blankets (premi and full term); slippers, socks, mittens, hats and scarves (all for children, teens and
adults); bed jackets, lapghans and afghans; and small animal blankets.

These items are delivered to "Out of the Cold Program" in St. Catharines, McMaster Hospital (premi items and afghans for seriously ill or
traumatized children/teens), local nursing homes, McNally House (Hospice), Grimsby Life Centre, West Niagara Second Stage Housing, Community
Living and Grimsby Animal Hospital and other organizations as needed.
Each item is tagged with the crafters first name to make it more personal.
For more information please contact:
Donna Nelson - Grimsby, Ontario 905-945-1596 email: heartfelt_donations@sympatico.ca (no web site)

RAY OF HOPE - making baby cardigans, ventilator hats, booties and more for babies in the UK.

Stitches Of Love and Kindness - - UK based charitable organisation (founded 2001) who make lap quilts for children and adults with long-term or life-threatening illnesses.

Our mission is to provide as much warm clothing as possible - hats, socks, scarves, jumpers, shawls, and also blankets - in order to help those in need survive the harsh Afghanistan winter, in which 100s of lives are lost each year due to extreme weather.

At the moment, we only have a collection point in Melbourne, Australia. All finished goods can be posted to:

The Ruth Mailbag group is dedicated to providing essential items to children and the elderly in need in Ladysmith, South Africa. Our work is conducted primarily through donations provided to the hospital for prem & new born babies, clothes to the Busy Bees creche, clothes for older children to the Mpilonhle Project (child headed households) and adult clothing for the Juana Maria Home for the frail aged. Thank you for your time and generosity!

Coordinator: Joy Coetzee
The Ruth Mailbag Group
C/o Foto First,
Murchison Street,
Ladysmith 3370,
South Africa

Further information please visit our group page on facebook

"When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed. We have refused to be instruments of love in the hands of God to give the poor a piece of bread, to offer them a dress with which to ward off the cold. It has happened because we did not recognize Christ when, once more, he appeared under the guise of pain, identified with a man numb from the cold, dying from hunger, when he came in a lonely human being, in a lost child in search of a home." Mother Teresa

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