Sarah’s blog 17/12/23
17th December – The hundreds of vulnerable children who are supported by the Foundation are living in extreme poverty. Many are orphans living with extended family. None have spare money to buy clothes.
As a way of highlighting this community that we are helping to support, we started collecting preloved school uniform to send to the children. School uniform is hardwearing and there is always lots of preloved uniform as children grow so quickly.
The children and young people have loved receiving new clothes and there is always great excitement when they know that new boxes have arrived. There will be another gift day next weekend and lots of sorting into different sizes has been happening this week.
Today’s photo is just some of the schools that we have had uniform from….there have been many more. We are grateful for all the help and support with giving hundreds of children decent clothes to wear. Please note that each box costs us £17.50 to send on the container plus other costs in Malawi to collect the boxes so we really do need financial support to keep repurposing these much needed clothes to the children.
The hope is that, as with other projects, the community can become self-sufficient and the need to send clothes will reduce. However, although a group of girls have started learning to make clothes, they are a long way from being self-sufficient. When there is more money in the community then they might have money for clothes.
If you’d like to donate to this or one of our other projects, then the link is here https://gofund.me/d3cf8c3a Thank you to everyone who helps us and supports our projects…we couldn’t do what we do without you. Thanks for reading, Sarah x