This new pack today was created to send to Careflight and is a small to medium so that the baby has larger garments as it grows.
* We have finished 100 x Careflight hat, bootees and smock sets which will be sent out later this week to early next week along with 25 full baby sets. * We are currently in the middle of making the tri-sets in red and white for NSW Ambulance (x 100). We only need two more small smocks, the rest needed are 25 x medium, 25 x large and 25 x newborn hats, smocks and bootees. * We currently need 150 trauma toys for NSW Ambulance Northern NSW region plus 50 for a small rural hospital emergency room. * Currently need 30 x hygiene packs for a RFS and 50 for same rural hospital for remote emergency patients. * We are also about to make up hundreds of packs for the rest of the year for the Northern Territory. We need a very large amount of Aboriginal stock. * We are still looking for all mauve, purple and peach (no tri or white colours with them) for baby packs as they are very popular. * We have plenty of funeral wraps for miscarried babies this year. * Our major unprecedented secret SHOULD be revealed any day now......... * Charity memberships for $5 a year will be available soon and you will receive a receipt and laminated certificate. Have a hold up with the official stamper for receipts amongst a million other things to get through. HOSPITAL HATS AND BOOTEES * Any colour accepted except grey * Have tons of under 1 pound and small preemie but currently need heaps of medium and large preemie and newborn. * If you can't make bootees, just the hats will do as we can pair them up easily with booties. Same with bootees. * We currently have plenty of 30 x 30 blankets but if you have crocheted granny squares (large) or crocheted 30 x 30 blankets to send, I can easily turn them into funeral beds for under 1lb my end after I photograph your donation. * Even if some item is in excess, I can always use it for something else in the packs. * Any pattern welcome, the more unusual and fun the better so check out Ravelry patterns. Animal hats, flower hats, Lala Loopy hats - whatever you want to do, please feel free to do it BUT have fun doing it! Please note that there are millions of FREE & pay for patterns on Ravelry to use. The ones you have to pay for are extremely inexpensive from $1.00 to $12.00. This particular aviator hat was created for our Careflight packs by Jess Lane (NSW)
We get a heavily discounted toy and the joys of sewing it up to give to a child. 2. Careflight tri-sets (hat, bootee, smocks). We currently require 5 small preemie hat and bootee sets in royal blue and yellow; 15 x large preemie sets and 18 x newborn sets. Smock sets count pending. 25 x full baby sets as requested by Careflight NSW. 3. NSW Ambulance tri-sets We currently require 25 x small; 25 x medium; 25 x large preemie and 30 x newborn smocks. Plus same amount in smocks. Smock pattern 4. We are about to start a large food care pack in a tea - chest box for midwives at a hospital (name disclosed until we are almost finished) plus 4 x Aboriginal baby sets for preemies. 5. Small care box for a recipient as a surprise for their very generous help. Name undisclosed until delivered because it's a huge surprise for them. They save us thousands of dollars and we could not operate without them. 6. Bunny Run for trauma toys for police, fire, ambulance at Easter. 7. Major Toy Run for trauma toys all year round as well as for baby packs. 8. 2 x tea-chest boxes food care packs for 120 crew at Careflight NT
I was sent a link by the head of health for the Northern Territory and I was just checking it out. We are sending packs into Gove Hospital so I checked out the info: "The East Arnhem Region is located in the far north of the Northern Territory, bounded by the Arafura Sea to the north and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the east. The region covers the Arnhem Land Aboriginal Trust (excluding Bulman), an area of approximately 41,000 sq km. It encompasses the towns of Nhulunbuy (also the regional service centre of East Arnhem Land) on the Gove Peninsular, Alyangula on Groote Eylandt, the islands of Galiwin'ku and Milingimbi and the major Aboriginal communities on the main land." So all our packs will be going to these places too. Not only that but Alice Springs is also covered in the Northern territory and they have a special care ward for preemies and everything so once I get a few hundred baby packs under my belt put together; I will contact the Alice Springs Hospital to see if they would like our packs as well. We will have to send them in a fridge size box so perhaps around $1,000 to send. I will have to contact Cowra Freight and get a cost. I will also contact the RAAF later on to ask about taking all our baby packs to Darwin Airport in November. We also have Tennant Creek Hospital in the NT however, I have read over their info and their hospital is only a 20 bed post for emergencies like broken bones, snake bites and so forth. They fix up the patient and the RFDS takes them to Alice Springs or the Royal Darwin Hospital. They also have an 8 bed renal unit but that's no good to us. The families on the remote islands and clinics are Torres Strait Islanders and have a different colour flag but because they are also circa the Great Barrier Reef; the families love very bright tropical colours to wear too so we are looking for bright coloured baby garments but not fluro please. Also, the Alice Springs Aboriginals use the black, yellow and red flag so they prefer those colours and very earthy Autumn like colours. So to sum it up, we need alot of Aboriginal colour themed packs for the Northern Territory in Autumn colours because they are earthy; in black / red / yellow colours for Alice Springs especally; bright colours for Arnhem Land, Gove Peninsular, Darwin Hospital; tropical colours of the Great Barrier reef (no fluro) and colours of the Torres Strait Islander flag. Please see photos below. (Maree)
I'm currently putting together 100 tri-sets (hats, bootees and smock) for Careflight to send them next week and have 23 completed so far. I'm just waiting on more smocks and hat & bootee sets to arrive.
Once completed I will be doing 25 full baby sets for them as well to send a little later. Meanwhile, tomorrow I will start on the 100 x NSW Ambulance sets for their delivery asap. If anyone has made any Careflight or NSW smocks or hat / bootee sets for us; please send them as soon as you possibly can please. We would appreciate it and the donation immensely. To date we have no more deliveries for Dubbo Refuge until after July 1 as they have to close all donation deliveries until then to see if they get the lease again. I have two almost full boxes to keep aside for them until then. We have a care box almost completed for the wonderful ambulance officers; a box of clothes for the people of Lake Cargelligo who are in dire need; and a box of goodies almost completed for a family of 4 in dire need of help. No more items will go to Lake Cargelligo Ambulance to help peoplein their community until they call for them as their station is so small that they have no storage for our boxes of items.
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AuthorMaree Agland - owner and coordinator of The Australian Outback Baby Project Inc. Categories
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