Saturday 30 July 2016

Parcel for Distribution #102 received today

Received a message from Days for Girls Phils that the parcel I sent last weekend has been received.
Thank you to Kerry Ann Tomas for planning and organizing the distribution on behalf of Dress A Girl Australia. Much appreciated.

Tuesday 26 July 2016

Feel like doing something awesome and great today?

Do something awesome today by sponsoring a dress for a 5-year-old girl and at the same time make a few disadvantaged kids happy with a great meal for a day! All you have to do is click on the dress below -
Thank you!

Saturday 23 July 2016

Parcel on its way

The two parcels for Dress Distribution #102 were picked up this morning and are now on their way to the Philippines for distribution.
Thank you to everyone who made this distribution possible.

Wednesday 20 July 2016

Dress Distribution #102 - Project School Starter Collection (Philippines) - 07/2016

This is my fourth distribution happening in the middle of the year 2016 and will be sent to the Philippines to be distributed on my behalf and Dress A Girl Australia by Days for Girls Philippines. These two quite heavy parcels -
has 23 dresses for toddler distribution, 95 dresses, 1 girls shirt/shorts matching set -
and 26 boys matching sets for disadvantaged girls starting or who may have already started going to school last month. 
It also includes school supplies (41 Totes/School Bags, 93 Exercise Books, 200 Ballpens, 8 Pencil Cases, 12 Sharpeners and 8 rectangular/16 mini erasers) -
made possible by the following donors and sponsors -
1) Lyn Granger
2) Jacqueline Oudman
3) Monika Osvald
4) Joan Kelly
5) Prue Wilkinson
6) Lois French
7) Anne McGinnes
8) Dalby Baptist Craft & Fellowship Group 
9) Elaine Klein
10) Betty Barrett/Betty Paull
11) Sharyn Paull
12) K Borg
13) Toni Kirkpatrick
14) Jayne Hogan
15) Pat Burton
16) Ana Carvalho
17) Frances Cornish
18) Make and Learn Sewing Bee c/o Natascha Wettmarshausen 
19) Monique Naranjilla
20) Starshine Sun
21) Lesley Kroese
22) Dress A Girl Australia

For larger and individual images of this collection, please click here

Thanks a whole lot to all the donors and sponsors of this distribution. Thank you all for your kindness, generosity and support. It is much appreciated. These parcels will be sent off this weekend and am dedicating it to the most kind and compassionate person I have ever known - my Dad who is celebrating his birthday tomorrow.

If you want to help sustain this campaign of providing dresses to disadvantaged children and make a difference to their lives, please sponsor a dress by just one click on the link below. It could be the only dress they get to wear and/or call their own. Thank you.

Donation #14 - Project School Starter Distribution - Last Parcel

Today I received the final parcel with 4 dresses and a girls' t-shirt/shorts matching set to be included in Dress Distribution #102 from Lesley Kroese. 
Thank you Lesley for your donation. With the final parcel in, it now brings my final total for this distribution with 23 dresses for toddler distribution, 95 dresses, 1 girls shirt/shorts matching set and 26 boys matching sets. Now who would expect I would still be able to collect these much and thank you to all who donated, sponsored and helped make this distribution possible. Much appreciated.

Sunday 17 July 2016

Donation #13 - Project School Starter Distribution - 12 more Exercise Books and 6 pens

I was doing some cleaning in my garage yesterday and consolidated some boxes so I have more space to move around when I found a plastic bag. Inside the plastic bag were these 12 exercise books and 6 ballpens and a docket in the amount of $4.00 dated 14-Sep-2014. I must have bought these items, placed it inside a box and forgot about it. 
These 12 books and 6 pens will be added to my School starter kit parcel Distribution #102. Wished I found more but these should be good enough to have a few more kids happy.

Saturday 16 July 2016

200 kids - Happy for a day with a great meal!

Sponsor a dress and help support Project : Food Makes a Difference. For $10.00 and/or $12.00 you get to provide meals to a few disadvantaged children and at the same time provide a new clothing to another disadvantaged kid. All sponsored clothes will be distributed in a planned Christmas distribution. To sponsor, all you have to do is click on the image or on the "Dress Sponsorship Program" label 
below -
For more details on the Project : Food makes a Difference, click on the link below -
Let us make 200 disadvantaged kiddies happy for at least one day with a great meal. Thank you.

Friday 15 July 2016

Dress Distribution #102 is now officially closed

Dress Distribution #102 - Project School Starter Kit collection is now officially closed. This collection has a total of 91 dresses which includes 23 for toddlers and 26 boys matching sets. Thank you to all who donated and sponsored dresses. Much appreciated.

Donation #12 - Project School Starter Distribution - 9 more dresses received

Today I received 9 more dresses including 3 sponsored for Dress Distribution #102. Proceeds from the 3 sponsored dresses goes to my ongoing Project : Food makes a Difference.
1) From Make and Learn students when they did a sewing bee late last year -
 2) Sponsored Dress by Monique S Naranjilla -
 3) A sponsored dress and a boys matching set from Starshine J Sun -
This brings my total to 91 dresses and 26 boys matching sets. Thank you to the donors for supporting this distribution. Much appreciated.

Wednesday 13 July 2016

New dresses for toddlers added to Dress Sponsorship Program

These dresses were added tonight to my Dress Sponsorship Program. For $10.00 you get to provide a new t-shirt/skirt set to a 4-year-old or a new pillowcase style of dress to a 2-year-old disadvantaged kids and at the same time support my new project : Food makes a Difference. 

To sponsor, just click on the image or on the Dress Sponsorship Program label below - 
Sponsored dresses will be included in the planned Christmas distribution. Thank you!

More dresses added to my Dress Sponsorship Program

More dresses and boys matching sets added to my Dress Sponsorship Program. Proceeds from sponsorship will go to my new Project : Food makes a Difference #1. To sponsor, all you have to do is click on the image or on the Dress Sponsorship Program label below. Proceeds goes to a very worthwhile cause and sponsored items will be included in the Christmas distribution. Thank you!
More dresses will be added for more options in the next few days.

Donation #11 - Project School Starter Distribution - Final parcels to be included in Dress Distribution #102

I am 2 days away from the cut-off date for Dress Distribution #102. Since I have not heard or received messages asking for postal details or advising me of parcels sent I will now assume that there are no more parcels in transit and what I have received below are  the last donations for this distribution. By this weekend I would have my parcels ready for sending. 
For the 3-day ending today 13-July - these are the donated dresses -
1) From Lyn Granger - 3 dresses and 2 boys matching sets
 2) From Jayne Hogan - 6 boys' matching sets and school bags and supplies
 3) From Pat Burton - 4 dresses
4) and ten dresses from Frances Cornish -
and the following are the sponsored dresses. Proceeds from the sponsorship goes to my new Project : Food makes a Difference #1 which will happen in Sept 2016 -
1) Two dresses from Ana Carvalho
2) One dress from Dress A Girl Australia -
3) and 2 dresses from Frances Cornish -
In total, as of today I have collected and/or received 83 dresses which includes 7 sponsored dresses, 23 dresses for toddlers and 25 boys matching sets which includes one sponsored set. I have also received and/or collected 41 school totes, 81 exercise books, 188 ballpens, 8 pencil cases, 12 sharpeners, 8 rectangular erases and 16 mini erasers.

Thank you to all the donors and sponsors of the above items. Thank you for supporting this campaign of providing dresses to disadvantaged kids. It is much appreciated.

Friday 8 July 2016

Donation #10 - Project School Starter Distribution - 30 more dresses and 3 boys matching sets for the week ending 8-Jul-2016

For the past 4 days ending today 8-Jul-2016 more parcels arrived with 30 dresses and 3 boys' matching sets added to the Project School Starter Collection.
1) From K Borg -
 2) From the Dalby Baptist Fellowship and Craft Group -
 3) From Toni Kirkpatrick -
 4) And a sponsored dress from Sharyn Paull -
The above donations bring my total to 84 dresses of which 23 are for toddlers and 17 boys matching sets. Proceeds from the sponsored dress will be allocated to my new project : Food makes a Difference. For more details of this food project, please click here. To sponsor a dress, please click here.

Thank you ladies for your support of Dress A Girl Australia's campaign to provide dresses to disadvantaged kids. It is much appreciated.

Thursday 7 July 2016

Project Food makes a Difference

I am promoting again my Dress A Girl Sponsorship program to raise money to fund a special program I am undertaking in September 2016. The special program is going to feed 200 disadvantaged and malnourished kids between the ages of 3 to 8 in a remote area located in the southern part of the Philippines (about an 1-1/2 by plane from Manila). A group of volunteers from the community will prepare special meals for these kids when the town celebrates its fiesta. My target number of dresses that I hope will be sponsored is between 30 to 50 dresses. Any dresses sponsored today and up to the 15th of July, 2016 will be included in Dress Distribution #102 which is leaving my humble abode at the end of this month(July 2016). Any sponsored dresses after this date (15-Jul-2016) will be included in my planned Christmas distribution. 

Project Food makes a Difference #1 starts today and for $10.00 you can help make a day special for 200 kids and at the same time make a disadvantaged girl happy with a new dress. For a price of 3 cups of coffee, you can help make this project a success and help make this world a better place. Help make a difference with just one click of your mouse on the link below -
For any questions or more details on this program, please send me a message or email me at dressagirlaustralia@gmail.com. Thank you.

Postbox 240 now closed

Just to advise everyone that the postbox 240 I normally advised for everyone to send their parcels has now been closed. Please do not send anything to this postbox as I no longer rent it. For dress donations to Distribution #102 and any future dress collections, you will be advised where to send the parcels or you can send me a message at dressagirlaustralia@gmail.com. Thank you.

Monday 4 July 2016

Donation #9 - Project School Starter Distribution - 20 dresses for the week ending 4-Jul-2016

Twenty more dresses were added to Dress Distribution Project School Starter Distribution bringing my to totalto 54 dresses, 14 boys t-shirts/shorts sets and school supplies which I have not counted yet. These parcels came from the following donors -
1) Sharyn Paull -
 2) Betty Barrett & Betty Paull -
3) Dalby Baptist Craft & Fellowship Group -
Thank you to Sharyn, Two Betty's and the members of the Dalby Baptist Craft & Fellowship Group for the dresses. Thank you for your support.