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Request for your extra needles and hooks
Hi all, Just got this via email from Afghans for Afghans: Greetings, ** Special Request: Double-Pointed Knitting Needles + Fine Crochet Hooks for Kabul Women ** If you have extra double-pointed needles and fine crochet hooks that need a good home, please read on ... We are searching for 20-25 double-pointed needle sets (5 needles per set) up to size 9 and fine and small metal crochet hooks in good condition. If you have incomplete needle sets, we can probably match them together. We are asking for needles and hooks to do dual duty that we think you will appreciate: #1 Use at Stitches West afghans for Afghans is having a booth at Stitches West, Oakland, CA, on Feb. 19-22. We'd like to have a supply of double-pointed knitting needles to show visitors the two-color cast-on and other techniques that are used in knitting Afghan socks. We are presenting a demo at the Marketplace demo area on Friday at 1 pm. (If you are attending, please visit and say hello and see our Afghan knitting examples, educational materials, photos, try on the burqua, rest your feet, etc.) #2 For Women in Kabul After Stitches West, we will mail these same supplies to a program in Kabul where the women knit, crochet, sew, learn how to read, receive health care and shelter, etc. Afghanistan still has few material goods. Shipping from here to there is expensive (plus complex when dealing with containers and customs), but sending these small tools offers a lot of value for the weight. In the past, we have mailed two small boxes of knitting needles and crochet hooks that were well received. Mailing costs about $25 for a 4-lb box to Kabul. If you would like to give funds to defray mailing costs, that would be gratefully accepted -- and we accept tax-deductible donation checks made to: "afghans for Afghans/Agape Foundation" (or we can use PayPal.) Please note, this special needle and hook shipment is *not* part of our regular on-going deliveries of cartons of hand-knit and crocheted blankets and garments, which are loaded on to huge containers with other relief supplies (courtesy of our relief agency partners World Concern and the American Friends Service Committee), and which are generally sent to displaced Afghan families in northern Afghanistan, not Kabul. Ann has personally met the head of this women's group and knows the supplies will be used. We are only sending these two types of tools at this time -- in response to a specific need. Perhaps we can send regular straight knitting needles or larger crochet hooks in a care package at a later date, depending on requests and postage funds. Please email us at afghans4Afghans at aol dot com for the address on where to send your double-pointed knitting needles, small metal crochet hooks, or support for the postal service. We would like to have the needles and hooks by Feb. 13, although if you tell us what you are sending, we can plan and take a couple extra days. |
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Just to let everyone know that I don't just post this stuff out without helping, I plan on taking my Michael's 40% off coupon from this weekend's paper and buying a set of needles to ship to Afghans for Afghans. Just something to consider..... ;-) /J Jenn Vanderslice wrote: Hi all, Just got this via email from Afghans for Afghans: Greetings, ** Special Request: Double-Pointed Knitting Needles + Fine Crochet Hooks for Kabul Women ** If you have extra double-pointed needles and fine crochet hooks that need a good home, please read on ... We are searching for 20-25 double-pointed needle sets (5 needles per set) up to size 9 and fine and small metal crochet hooks in good condition. If you have incomplete needle sets, we can probably match them together. We are asking for needles and hooks to do dual duty that we think you will appreciate: #1 Use at Stitches West afghans for Afghans is having a booth at Stitches West, Oakland, CA, on Feb. 19-22. We'd like to have a supply of double-pointed knitting needles to show visitors the two-color cast-on and other techniques that are used in knitting Afghan socks. We are presenting a demo at the Marketplace demo area on Friday at 1 pm. (If you are attending, please visit and say hello and see our Afghan knitting examples, educational materials, photos, try on the burqua, rest your feet, etc.) #2 For Women in Kabul After Stitches West, we will mail these same supplies to a program in Kabul where the women knit, crochet, sew, learn how to read, receive health care and shelter, etc. Afghanistan still has few material goods. Shipping from here to there is expensive (plus complex when dealing with containers and customs), but sending these small tools offers a lot of value for the weight. In the past, we have mailed two small boxes of knitting needles and crochet hooks that were well received. Mailing costs about $25 for a 4-lb box to Kabul. If you would like to give funds to defray mailing costs, that would be gratefully accepted -- and we accept tax-deductible donation checks made to: "afghans for Afghans/Agape Foundation" (or we can use PayPal.) Please note, this special needle and hook shipment is *not* part of our regular on-going deliveries of cartons of hand-knit and crocheted blankets and garments, which are loaded on to huge containers with other relief supplies (courtesy of our relief agency partners World Concern and the American Friends Service Committee), and which are generally sent to displaced Afghan families in northern Afghanistan, not Kabul. Ann has personally met the head of this women's group and knows the supplies will be used. We are only sending these two types of tools at this time -- in response to a specific need. Perhaps we can send regular straight knitting needles or larger crochet hooks in a care package at a later date, depending on requests and postage funds. Please email us at afghans4Afghans at aol dot com for the address on where to send your double-pointed knitting needles, small metal crochet hooks, or support for the postal service. We would like to have the needles and hooks by Feb. 13, although if you tell us what you are sending, we can plan and take a couple extra days. -- Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. - Immanuel Kant |
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http://pe.usps.gov/text/Imm/immicl/immiclab_001.html
The post office offers a global service which is a flat rate and considerably cheaper than the amount cited. Above web site gives information on sending materials to Afganistan. Joan |
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