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KasSnippets – October 2013

KasSnippets – October 2013   Reporting KAS in South Africa : KAS Helps Children outside of Gauteng     Last week you heard about Oliver and Hotel Hope and the wonderful work they do for orphaned children in South Africa.  KAS also supports other organisations who do the most amazing work with children and who are […]

KasSnippets – November 2013

KasSnippets – November 2013   FIVE YEARS AND A FAREWELL   Obviously the momentous news of the month is the departure of Sandy McDonald – after 5 years of unstinting work, guidance, and indeed, sacrifice, during the development of Knit-a-Square.  The entire McDonald family  – Sandy, Roger, Kalai, Cressida and Zanny – brought Ronda’s blanket […]

Sheep And Wool Show Report!

Late last year, hopeful but only cautiously optimistic, I got in contact with the organizers of the Australian Sheep and Wool Show, one of the largest of its kind in the world and held in Bendigo, Australia once a year. After a few email conversations, I was delighted to find that, not only was the […]

2014 KAS CALENDAR (and other shop goodies!)

Many thanks to Sandy for designing next year’s KAS calendar, it is full of beautiful photos of the kids and your knitting masterpieces. The money from every purchase helps us to continue the distributions and support for the kids, their carers, the creches and the gogos of South Africa.

KasSnippets – July 2013

Knit-a-Square has a new home !       Starting on Thursday 11th July, the contents of Knit-a-Square were gradually removed from Ronda & Peter Lowrie's home into our new offices!   We had hardly begun to settle-in when our first, most welcome, visitors arrived at the new premises that very day!  A lovely group […]

KasSnippets – June 2013

What a fabulous month it has been so far for KAS in South Africa!   Ronda, with Wendy's support has created a report on the Forum which will help all our wonderfully supportive members around the globe to grow even closer to the South African team and get a taste of what it is like […]