Today we are launching our Christmas Parcel Appeal.
Postage is the the only way we have of receiving the many items we need for our family, now that there are so very few tourists, specially from the UK, travelling out to Watamu for their holidays.
Those who planned their visits would always bring so much for us, often an extra case, in the way of clothes and other necessities for our children. Without these donations our stocks are quickly being depleted as we keep up with a kids who just keep on growing!.
We know that we had asked you, before this crisis arose, to cut back on parcels because of the import duty we were having to pay on everything received.
Some of kindly continued to post things, paying the import duty as well as stomaching the high cost of postage.
The most recent parcels to arrive, full of lovely things, have come from our friends Brenda Groves and Pauline Royle and will be kept for for Santa’s storeroomAt this time our Parcel Appeal really is a case of needs, must if our 84 children are to have a happy Christmas and we know that you will respond,as you always do, with love and generosity.
Mama has given a lot of thought to our Christmas list and is asking you to send items that are of practical and educational use to our children – the novelty of having something new to wear, of their own that isn’t a hand-me-down, never wears off.
Even our smallest children love to parade around like fashion models!
CLICK AND CARE
Help! Our charity is clicks away from being eligible to win a £1000 prize from JustGiving – but there’s just six days left to qualify by getting 100 clicks on the “Care” button. Please click on this link https://www.justgiving.com/childrenofwatamu/ and hit the CARE button at the top of the page. That’s all there is to it! And please share with your friends.