It takes a community to support a community. Thank you! Just so many thanks to be given! In the past couple of days we have packed hundreds of gift bags stuffed to the brim for Melbourne kids in foster care and their carers for two parties this week. That amounted to...
What an incredible day! Our thanks to Gabbi (pictured left with our CEO Melina) who decided to turn her 'significant' birthday into a packing day for the m.a.d.woman foundation. Her guests helped us pack more than 3000 gifts into care packs for foster kids in...
When the m.a.d.woman foundation goes shopping for kids in foster care! (Still going!) Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this project. Extra special thanks to Kmart Australia Northland for your additions to our trolleys!
We've had an amazing response to our call out for gift packs for 260 Melbourne kids in foster care and for their 100 carers. We still have some gaps on our ultimate wishlist, mainly for boys. Can you, or someone you know, help? Please help spread the word. Following...
We asked for donations for our care packs for kids in foster care and this arrived today from our gorgeous friends at Sewing for Charity Australia - thank you!! (Yep, that's NINE boxes stuffed full of goodness for our project). These gifts will help us create some...
Ruffle bums! Look at these adorable handsewn ruffle bums donated to us from our m.a.d. assistant Melissa's Mum! We just love them - along with all the other goodies included in your box to us. Thank you!
These are even cuter in real life!! Thanks to the gorgeous Kathryn for sewing this box of bears and her lovely mum Ruth for stuffing them. They are going in our gift packs for foster kids. If you'd like to help out, please see our previous post to see who we are...
Thank you Keryn for your gorgeous donation of handmade toys! These are adorable and will be much loved in their new homes.
How cute is this bag?! It's one of many being filled with goodies for kids in need in Canberra today. Thank you to the team at Sewing for Charity Australia for this and many, many other gorgeous bags for us to fill! Thank you also to the wonderful volunteers who knit,...
Very happy to have packaged more than 450 items today into care packs for kids and their mothers who are facing disadvantage in Canberra. Huge thanks to a special volunteer, Nicole, who refuses to be in pictures but turns up again and again to help with packing. That...