Where did I get our banner? On Sunday, I was at a Bay Area conference about rebuilding Afghanistan. (Rene, the moderator of the a4A friends group on Ravelry, kindly joined me at our info table.) We visited with many Afghan-Americans, and Fareed wrote the sign for us. I will email our photo to the CWS staff in Afghanistan, and I think they may share it with the children.
I will inform our whole email list with an item count and total when I get a chance. I also need to read all the notes that came with packages and send back the SASEs. Plus, we will pick new stash drawing winners. I may not get to this for a few days. I have a few things to catch up on. For now, I thought you would enjoy this photo -- at street level -- and knowing that our winter collection for youth has started its journey to Afghanistan.
Tashakor,
Ann
8 comments:
What a great photo! The children are going to be so happy to see the banner written in Dari and knowing that the boxes are containing items to keep them warm through the hard cold winter. Your smiling faces radiate the love that was put into each item.
I just asked another Afghan-American friend to review the translation of our sign, and I wanted to make sure it is readable in the photo version. He says our banner reads, "Gift of friendship to the Afghan children and Afghan youth." How true.
Thank you aFSC, A4A and all the volunteers, for making it possible to share so directly with these children in harm's way. I got so choked up when I saw this.
Blessings, Kathy
I do get emotional thinking about the kids being able to be warm.
Thank you for your hard work.
50 cartons! It's amazing so many gifts were crocheted/knitted so quickly. What a great group!
Shirley
this is so wonderful! thanks for sharing these great pics. And thank you again to all the volunteers who give so much of themselves to help the most helpless...
It's nice the see the faces behind the hard work. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to find such a nice home for my knitting.
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