We are slowly making progress moving all of these diapers from our front porch to the orphanages in Ethiopia. We've had several great volunteer families willing to pack our diapers and covers and take them with them when they travel to Ethiopia in March. Here is a picture of all of the space bagged diapers and covers that we are mailing off just this week.
With each bag of diapers and covers we are sending a laminated instruction sheet. The instructions are just five pictures (no words) of how to use the cloth diaper with the cover. That way the instructions can be followed by anyone without any translation and hopefully, being laminated, they will last a long time.
All of our diaper-cover-making packets have been taken from our church and many have already been returned! We still have 6 or 7 packets that I will take out this Sunday (unless I hear from someone who wants them first). I actually made some covers all by myself this week and I only have a BASIC knowledge of sewing. If you don't live in our area I can email you the instructions and pattern. The instructions are very easy to follow.
I hope that when it is our turn to travel to Ethiopia we see some of these diaper covers actually in use! With all of the resources we have here, there is no reason that a baby in Ethiopia should be without any diaper at all. Yet, this is the reality for most babies in orphanages. We hope to supply the orphanages that AWAA uses with enough diapers and covers that they no longer have a problem. But there are many, many more orphanages and many more babies. Hopefully we can get enough covers and enough diapers sent over that our orphanages can share with others in need.
Thank you Lori for helping us get started and donating so much of your own time and talent to our cause. And thank you to all of the women in Greene County who have already taken these packets and made our covers! We can't thank you enough. And thank you to Brittony for your generous and much needed donation! (Some of your space bags are already in the mail!)
So if you would like a packet or instructions let me know! Also, if you would like to donate to our cause, so that we can continue making these covers, you can use our donate button on the side. Just specify that the donation is for diaper covers.
All of our diaper-cover-making packets have been taken from our church and many have already been returned! We still have 6 or 7 packets that I will take out this Sunday (unless I hear from someone who wants them first). I actually made some covers all by myself this week and I only have a BASIC knowledge of sewing. If you don't live in our area I can email you the instructions and pattern. The instructions are very easy to follow.
I hope that when it is our turn to travel to Ethiopia we see some of these diaper covers actually in use! With all of the resources we have here, there is no reason that a baby in Ethiopia should be without any diaper at all. Yet, this is the reality for most babies in orphanages. We hope to supply the orphanages that AWAA uses with enough diapers and covers that they no longer have a problem. But there are many, many more orphanages and many more babies. Hopefully we can get enough covers and enough diapers sent over that our orphanages can share with others in need.
Thank you Lori for helping us get started and donating so much of your own time and talent to our cause. And thank you to all of the women in Greene County who have already taken these packets and made our covers! We can't thank you enough. And thank you to Brittony for your generous and much needed donation! (Some of your space bags are already in the mail!)
So if you would like a packet or instructions let me know! Also, if you would like to donate to our cause, so that we can continue making these covers, you can use our donate button on the side. Just specify that the donation is for diaper covers.
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