We will start KasSnippets with this photograph : 14th May Ronda's car broke down on the way to distribute much needed blankets to Ithumeleng Creche in Soweto! Thankfully, Ronda's saintly husband came to the rescue whilst the AA took care of the car. Peter loaded his car and the journey continued so the children wouldn't […]
In this blog, I will chronicle a love story. Like any good love story, it will be filled with heroes and villains, triumphs and defeats, courage and despair and it will be threaded throughout with hope. As is often the case, the lovers in this story were strangers from different worlds and cultures brought together […]
According to the United Nations, There are more than 34 million orphans in the region (sub-Saharan Africa) today and some 11 million of them are orphaned by AIDS. Eight out of every 10 children in the world whose parents have died of AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa. During the last decade, the proportion of children […]
Celebrate a charity knitting hero Jill Wright, Colorado in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains Jill runs a website business from home, called woolcrafting.com, also through Site Build It (like knit-a-square). I contacted her in January 2009 to ask her if she would be kind enough to do a crochet pattern of the Square […]
Celebrate a charity knitting hero Laura, beautiful Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Laura wrote in early March 2009: "There is an awesome online social site called Ravelry.com for keeping track of patterns, projects, stashes, books, hooks, needles etc… and I would like to start a group on there for this charity. Hopefully it will pull a […]
Would you visit South Africa if it was accompanied? If you have ever thought to visit South Africa, this is your opportunity to let us know where you would want to go, what you would want to see and if you would prefer it to be accompanied. South Africa is a land of immense physical […]
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