With love,
Committee members and Guardian Angels of
The Australian Outback Baby project Inc
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Our sincerest love, condolences and gratitude go out to the Donnet Family in this very sad time of their lives.
With love, Committee members and Guardian Angels of The Australian Outback Baby project Inc Two weeks ago a family told me about a little preemie baby that was born into their family. I gave them a business card to contact me just in case they needed some NCIU smocks and other items for the little darling.
I'm very sad to say that Baby Abigail didn't live and is now in the arms of the Angels. May her beautiful, bereaved family know that we are all thinking of your baby darling and will offer up some prayers for her. We are very sorry for your loss, but quietly pleased that she had one of our baby sets to be buried in and it could ease your pain somewhat. May Abigail rest in perfect peace and perpetual light shine upon her dear little face. With much love to you all, Maree Agland, The Australian Outback Baby Project Inc committee and tens of thousands of our supporters. Due to problems with the internet, all donation photos for August - September will be uploaded at the end of September.
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 * 40 x Trauma Toys and 25 x road safety books
- Senior Sergeant Garry Smith, Darwin Police NT * Tea-chest box of tri-sets and miscarried baby sets to CareFlight * 2 x tea-chest boxes of jumper sets and blankets to Katherine NT to Catholic Care NT for our orphans. * Box of wool to Gae Rich to make more jumpers and hat/bootee sets for us. *(Delivered September 1, 2014) Box of fabric for Karina Tomlinson for her charity (Days for Girls), that we can't use. And as a thank you for all her hard work helping us by collecting our donations across two states. Here is our project list for 2015:
* Trauma Toys to VRA Rescue Groups NSW only. * Trauma Toys and small care pack to Bathurst Fire Brigade. * Large care box to Dubbo and Young Hospitals again. * Large care box to Dubbo VRA Rescue and Woodford RFS. * Ongoing trauma toys to Dubbo VRA and Woodford RFS. * Hygiene pack top ups to Woodford RFS (no bags needed just plastic clip lock.) * Baby packs to NT remote clinics and hospitals. * Collect Christmas presents for our 260 NT orphans and foster kids from January to September 2015 so there is less financial stress. * Ongoing baby products and food to the 260 babies and kids. * Ongoing trauma toys for Garry Smith to distribute. * Hygiene bags to NT police, fire, ambulance, rescue, rangers. * Ongoing trauma Toys to Snowy Hydro Southcare. * Large care box/s to Careflight (twice a year) and Careflight NT (3 boxes for 120 crew) once a year. * Careflight sets (blue/yellow + green / blue / white / black; Aboriginal). We love and appreciate every single donation that we receive to help so many thousands of kids, babies, families and services around Australia.
Currently I am completely run off my feet bagging and boxing up trauma toys, Christmas presents for 260 Outback orphans and foster kids, baby products for remote communities and baby packs for the NT babies. All photos of donations for July 2014 will be on this website on Sunday July 27th if all goes well. We apologise for any inconvenience caused but we are really swamped right now with this, committee meetings and many other charity related things. (Maree) Great news just in !
I've just been talking to Donna from Katherine in the NT, who runs a wonderful organization that helps children there. Next Wednesday week they will be having a film night to raise money for us and we will then have circa $2,000 towards freight to take all the goodies up there. They will then do two more fundraisers to help us out for the rest of the freight and money towards trauma toys. I really want to thank a young lady by the name of Ameena Serao who has been a constant support and wonderful friend the last few weeks. She told Donna all about us and we knew our collaboration was Divine intervention! I would also like to thank the supportive members of the Support NT Police group that have offered help, advice and encouragement for all that we do. My committee is the same and I wouldn't know what to do without them, especially Antonia Fleming who has been with me since day one. One last thing! We MUST have absolutely every item to be sent to the Northern territory by the 3rd week of September as the rainy season begins in October and it is impossible for the truck to get through and for the organization to deliver these goods into remote communities. (Maree) I put a heap of toys on layby at Big W today so I can pick them up in 2 weeks. But before I tell you what I bought, I need to tell you something.
Yesterday a wonderful woman was directed to me to help many babies, kids and parents in the Northern Territory who desperately need help. Her organization works with these children and 260 orphans. Babies and kids whose parents have died of Alcohol poisoning, drug OD and or huffing on aerosol cans. The parents abandon their children to do this usually so the kids end up with no clothes, food, toys or even Christmas and birthday presents. It really broke my heart to hear that all this organization could afford for Christmas for the kids last year, were colouring in books. This year they have nothing for these little darlings who think no one loves nor wants them or cares. The organization (name witheld for now) desperately needs baby items of every nature, especially new baby clothes, toys, products, bottles, paper nappies (In the NT 25 nappies = $52. in NSW 104 + nappies = $25), baby wipes etc etc. They need many baby packs from us, especially funeral packs as hundreds to thousands of babies are miscarried or stillborn. Rapes are apparently high and an 11 year old has already had a baby from it. The children are very under nourished so, if we can get them food to send up there; this organization will make sure that they are all fed. We are the only charity authorized to send items up there because of our strict health standards and the fact that we have a high reputation for quality, ethics and understanding of the Aboriginal missions. So, I put away a heap of toys today and will purchase them myself towards these 260 kids Christmas presents. I have a top end loader, dump truck and 3-4 pet pillows for them. I will buy a ton more toys at the Reject Shop as you get more bang for your bucks. Please ask me if a toy is suitable before buying because their community may take a deep offense to certain hings (like white dolls). For those few who say that Aboriginals "get everything"... well if you have seen the way they live in squalor, no food, no nappies, no parents to love them or a jumper to find comfort; and the fact that the whole of the Northern Territory is getting worse than a 3rd world country because our government sweeps them under the carpet; then you would think twice! (Maree) Photo courtesy of Allan Honor Hello Beautiful People! Just a quick note to say hello and to show you what an incredible supporter and person Gayle Gijsbers from BountifulBubs- Caring for Families is. Gayle has previously donated 20 red preemie baby nappies last year and this week donated 350 more nappies and 200 nappy inserts to us. Please see photos below. We would also like to thank TNT Express management and staff in Lismore for donating freight space to take the huge box to Wetherill Park so Cowra Freight could deliver it to me free of charge so thank YOU Cowra Freight. WHAT WE CURRENTLY NEED:- 1. Hat and bootee sets in red/white in large preemie and newborn. 2. Sewn smocks in red/white in medium, large preemie and newborn. 3. Hygiene products 4. Plush toys 20-35cm and especially Careflight bears 5. All baby products (Hay Hospital) - paper nappies, baby wipes, cotton wool, Johnsons Baby Powder with cornstarch; disposable baby bibs (Reject Shop sell them $2 box); dummies (preemie to 2 years; bottles; teats etc. 6. $300 to send boxes of toys to the Northern Territory urgently for police. Please contact us first as we will broker a deal with a local freight company to pay $100 per box. if they agree then people can donate the money direct to the freight company itself. Nothing is needed for the Dubbo Womens Refuge or Lake Cargelligo currently. |
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