Our current cut off for donations is October 31, 2014 because we are getting so many items in that I cannot keep up with photographing, uploading, thanking people and just about everything else.
It's not that we don't appreciate them, it's just that I am the only one that does all the photographing, website, Twitter, Facebook updating plus creating sets, bagging, boxing and sending.
I need from October to the end of February to create all the preemie baby sets and get them sent out to Westmead Hospital, Careflight, ready to go in April for the NT as well as do two large care boxes for Careflight NT, one for Young Hospital and one for Dubbo.
We have the trauma toys to continually send as well and I have 60 hygiene bags to start making up for Woodford RFS.
The ONLY donations we will be accepting between November 1 2014 to March 1, 2015 are the following:
* Trauma toys
* Hygiene products (child and adult)
* Financial donations
* Nappies (all brands and sizes)
* Baby products (hygiene)
* Baby related items eg teething gel / rings, nappy bags and wipes, bibs, bowls, mugs / cups, rattles etc.
AS OF MARCH 1, 2015 we will then accept:
* Christmas presents for the 260 orphans.
* Jumper / hat / bootee (or socks for older) sets - newborn to aged 12
* Baby clothes (knit,sew, crochet, handmade, bought)
* Hat, smock and bootee sets in royal blue and golden yellow ONLY
for Careflight (no light blue and lemon).
* Small to large preemie baby clothes, newborns.
* All your other beautiful donations we usually take.
~~Please note we have enough funeral wraps and nurses are stating they cannot dress a baby under 22 weeks in intricate garments. Less fuss is the best such as the AIDS jumpers and a hat to go with it. ~~
We are fine for blankets until March but have started asking for polar fleece blankets hemmed for our orphans.
Any questions, please email me (Maree) at [email protected] and I will answer your questions as soon as possible.
My main concerns absolutely right now are:
** The 60 hygiene bags to be completed and sent
** To get all the boxes to Katherine NT some how.
** To send 300 trauma toys to Darwin