What’s an AIDS orphan? A child whose lost a mother and/or father to AIDS. These children are alone, abandoned, unloved, and it’s estimated that there are 11.6 million of them in Africa. So why don’t you:
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Knitting an 8″ by 8″ square works for me. How about you?
Little Lerato was abandoned at birth. She is one of over two million abandoned children and AIDS orphans in Southern Africa.
By crocheting and knitting for charity you can help make a child like Lerato warm.
My name is Sandy.
Zanny, my mother, has been knitting all her life. She knits everything, and it was her colourful and unique baby blanket patterns that helped inspire this knitting project. We live in Australia, but originally came from Zimbabwe. My aunt, Ronda, lives in South Africa.
Here she is handing over the very first knit-a-square blanket to Jamey, a young disabled orphan, on behalf of the children’s charity, Soweto Comfort Club at Phiri Parish, Soweto on Saturday 28 March 2009, accompanied by their beautiful singing.
The women of her local church have set up the Soweto Comfort Club to help the church communities in Soweto, near Johannesburg. This children’s charity serves many of these abandoned children and AIDS orphans both affected by, and infected with, HIV AIDS.
It is estimated that there are 11.6 million orphans in sub-saharan Africa. 1.4 million live in South Africa.
They live in terrible poverty. They need love, shelter, food, education and warmth. Many children’s charities are working hard to provide the first four. Charity knitting and crocheting can provide the last.
This simple charity crochet and knitting project to make and send 8 x 8″ squares, which will be made into blankets for these children, takes little time, costs little and will make a difference.
All while you do what you love – knitting and crocheting.
Soweto Comfort Club, who have taken up this knitting project with great enthusiasm, will join and distribute the blankets.
Every single square that is sent will be used in a blanket to keep an AIDS orphan or abandoned child warm.
If you chose to knit a Square Vest, Square Pullover or hat for a child, then every article you knit will be worn by a child, re-worn by another smaller child when it no longer fits, and another, until it can no longer be worn.
Your stitches are an act of love, not just for one child but for many.
So please use your left over yarn scraps, join the knit-a-square crochet and knitting for charity project and your squares will soon be in blankets keeping and abandoned child, like Lerato or an AIDS orphan warm.
Knit-a-square is a community of caring, generous and kind people who welcome new members in all of its groups.
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