Needlepushers completes distributions for season

I think this is well worth repeating from the other WB:

Today Needlepushers did its final distribution for this season at a kindergarten in San Juan Cosala. We gave handmade dresses to a total of about 60 girls, divided about equally between the morning and afternoon groups. Last week we distributed dresses to 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade girls and vests to 3rd grade boys in Santa Cruz de la Soledad. Polo shirts were given to the boys in 1st and 2nd grades there. Previously we gave dresses and vests to all of the students at a different kindergarten in San Juan Cosala and dresses to the girls and polo shirts to the boys at a kindergarten in Riberas del Pilar. There were a total of approximately 180 dresses distributed and about one third that number of vests.

Needlepushers was started in 1962 by Neill James. Working entirely with donated materials, the group knits sweaters for fall distribution and sews dresses and vests for spring distribution to needy children at Lakeside. We gifted about 180 hand knit sweaters to children in Ajijic last October and November. There are 35 current members of the group, including quite a few snowbirds.

If you like to knit or sew and want to help the local children, this is a great group to be part of. We meet every Tuesday in the Sala on the back patio of the Lake Chapala Society, 10:00-11:45. Dues are 100 pesos per year.

If you don't knit or sew but still want to help us help the children, we are always in need of donations: yarn, fabric, trims, notions, etc. We especially need fabrics appropriate for boys' vests as those kinds of prints are not readily available here in Mexico yet are abundant in the US and Canada. I found many fabulous printed cottons to make vests on a recent trip to the US: animals, super heroes, cars, cartoon characters, and cool stripes and small prints to combine with these. Even 1/2 yard is enough to make one side of a reversible vest. So if you have anything you would like to donate to Needlepushers for this work, or if you are travelling to the US or Canada and can bring back fabric or yarn (synthetic, not wool,) please think about us. If we receive donations of items that we cannot use, we sell them at yard sales and then use the cash to buy things we need. We even save our remnants and give them to the Original Friends prison dolls program. Nothing goes to waste with Needlepushers. We even accept donations of cash to buy materials. Any donations can be left with the office at LCS. Without donations from people like you Needlepushers cannot do this charitable work.