Little Dresses for Africa » changing lives one little dress at a time

A team of 12 dedicated and excited humanitarians are planning a trip to Malawi, East Africa in September 2010. This team will be giving up the comforts of their homes, vacation time from work, $3000 of their own money for flights, lodging, food, fuel and transportation and taking a 24 hour flight to Malawi, to deliver the little dresses to the children. While we are there we will be teaching Bible classes, working with the children, doing repairs on the facilities and conducting home visits to the patients with AIDS in the villages. I am so grateful for this team that God is bringing together.
While we are there, along with the distribution of your beautiful dresses, we have been asked to bring 200 Bibles and so some repairs. I know so many of you have done so much but in order to make the most of our trip there are some projects we’d like to do in addition to distribution of the dresses. I will list the projects and if you are able to help in any way, please let me know which project you are supporting when you give on line or send tax deductible checks to:
Little Dresses for Africa
24614 Curtis Drive
Brownstown, MI 48134
Thank you so much for all you continue to do!!!

$2000= 200 Bibles (100 in English, 100 in Chechewa)
$2500= repairs and painting to the Nan Ray School of Learning/Feeding Center
$3000= 200 “Buckets of Hope” containing salt, sugar, oil and a mosquito net
$500.= Vacation Bible school crafts which include Cross necklaces with beads to teach the “steps to Salvation”

Please let me know what you’d like your money to go to and I will assure you 100% will get directly to the project. Thank you SO MUCH!!!
Love, Rachel

If this isn’t an innovative and generous idea, I don’t know what is!  A precious soul has decided to use her blessings to bless others.  Celeste and her husband Jason Gallagher, have arranged to sell gourmet cookies in their cafe, The Spotted Rooster Cafe, in New Jersey and donate  the profit to help with shipping costs of the beautiful little dresses that you are all sewing.  Some SEW.  Some GO, and some donate cookie profits!  This is one more amazing way that we all work together to help the little girls of Central Africa.  Thank you all for your generosity and your willing spirits.  Together, we can and DO make a difference! 

Another really cute idea was from a talented seamstress who makes pillow case dolls out of pillow cases.  She sells them for $35 and sends the check directly to Little Dresses for Africa.  I am constantly blown away by everyone’s dedication to these children.  So many people joining together to help others.  I am convinced that this world is made up of wonderful people and I have met a TON of them through Little Dresses for Africa.  If you are interested in one of these little dolls, let me know through this website and I’ll put you in touch with Alice Bailey.  Thank you, Alice!

We have some Little Dresses for Africa T-shirts for those that want to spread the word.  It’s a great way to advertise what we’re doing and get a conversation going.  We sold these at the recent Fund Raiser for a donation of $10.00.  If you’re interested you can send me a note and a check made out to Little Dresses for Africa for $10.00 to cover the costs of the shirts and I’ll cover the shipping as a thank you for your help.   The shirts are short sleeved cotton in black with the logo in white lettering.  I have sizes medium, large and extra-large.  I have a few children’s mediums in white.  We also have a very nice hard back book called “The Tall Black Woman and the Hawk” for a donation of $15.  It is a folk story about love for all ages and would make a nice holiday gift. Proceeds go to LDFA of course!   I’ll get a good picture up here soon!  You can also buy these through paypal and just let me know what the donation is for.  Thanks again for your help!  Rachel

 

Ways you can make a difference:

*Donate new or gently used pillow cases and items such as double bias tape or 1/2 inch elastic, to Little Dresses for Africa.

*Contribute to shipping costs across the United States or to Africa.

*Donate air tight vaccum space bags in size small or medium, for shipping dresses for Little Dresses for Africa.

*Put us in touch with mission groups who are going and would be willing to take and distribute dresses to children in the name of Jesus.

*Take dresses with you when your mission team goes to Africa.

*Donate financially to Little Dresses for Africa to cover costs of the sewing projects.

*Donate financially to Little Dresses for Africa to help to support the new Nan Ray School of Learning in Malawi being started.

* Show up on the 4th Thursday in Brownstown if you are in the area to size and package the dresses for shipping.

Donations can be sent to:
Little Dresses for Africa
24614 Curtis Drive
Brownstown, MI 48134