Morning Guys
Finally got round to completing the Monthly updating for Feb - Things are coming along really nicely and we are way ahead of ourselves. The PC's and the new swimming pool have now left and are on their 1st leg of the journey. Dougie has also left and will be in Bulgaria when they arrive.
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February Monthly Update 2011 Bulgarian Orphanage Silistra
We are into Feb now and so much has happened
Here are our lovely friends Michaela Corroda and their beautiful daughter Aisa, they have visited the Silistra Orphanage last year and the family have made a donation to the Dimcho in order that something special can be purchased for the children.Therefore, we have purchased these two items making up the small difference from Granddad Doogle’s friends on ourbulgariaforum.com
Grandad Doogle our mascot!!
Thank you so much guys you are just amazing!! Your gifts will prove invaluable to the Orphanage and the children will simply love the swimming pool.
This is what we purchased on their behalf
1) An 18ft easy up swimming pool which will be fantastic!!
We will send this over with the computers so the children get the benefit for the summer
2) An 32ft by 16ft Marquee
This will be a fantastic asset to the Orphanage it can be used primarily for the Garden Party on Sat 1st October as well as any other events they have at the Dimcho.
4 Pallets collected and stored already and we are only in Feb
PC Howard Ltd has collected 4 pallet loads already. This lot are for the Dimcho, Baby Orphanages, the Disability Day Centre and the Home for the Elderly along with a small amount of medical aids for the Local Doctors surgery. Last Sept we had 19 pallets to ship over, could have even more this year. We have a few more organisations now.
This is Rick getting stuck right in there as usual.
Here is Dougie &
Rick our very good friend who is always there to help whatever
we need. Nothing is too much trouble for him – Thank you so much for everything Rick.
This is the new swimming pool from friends in Italy and ourbulgarianforum.com
These boxes contain the 10 secondhand donated computers from Luminus Group
They will be picked up Friday 4th March 2011 by Rob a fantastic chap. They will be delivered to another wonderful chap Latcho at Delamode in Essex and then he will ship them to Bulgaria Sofia. Once in Sofia, Vladimir at NTZ Transport will organise the transportation of them to Silistra.
All this companies have been fantastic and Dougie and I are overwhelmed at their generosity. Thanks a million times over guys, you have all been just brilliant and just think how much joy you will be bringing to the children at the Dimcho – Well done!!!
The 10 Computers
We have had a quiet month re collections – although myself. Maureen and Mary have been busy knitting for Easter, re the novelty eggs, also Vicky knitted some fabulous cupcakes and the lovely Jeanette has made some fantastic hand made Easter cards. Also look at these beautiful hand-knitted blankets, another 14 knitted again by the lovely Tina, Dorothy and their friends. Ladies you are all just super, they are just fantastic and add these to the 24 you knitted last year we have 38 now. The ray of colour at the orphanage is wonderful and the children just love them. They will continue to knit the blankets until every child has a blanked (t) of their own and probably the babies too. All our volunteers will not accept anything from us, they supply all the wool give their time and skill freely. You are just amazing! Irene &
Dave, Sue, Arthur &
family from Skegness brought mountains of goods to us on two occasions, thanks again to you all .
The blankets
The shoeboxes are almost complete for the Dimcho only 10 more to do and I will get round to doing them now the house is clear again. We will do some for the Disability Centre this year we are hoping Maureen and her Orton Rainbows, Brownies and Guides will help us again, they did about 30 for us last year which was fantastic. Kelly’s group has also offered to do some so will keep you updated.
We had another orphanage in Dobrich which we will help – I have a group of lovely ladies in Bulgaria who has (have) come forward and asked how they can help, we decided that they can make up a box or two of goodies and bring them along to the Orphanage for Easter. I am awaiting the Director Nicokly to contact me with the details. So thank you ladies, I will let you know as soon as possible
The Disability Centre
We have 4 computers that we wish to donate to them. These were the computer bases that Kelsey Publishing gave us last year, we now have the keyboards, monitors etc so they will be sent over in Sept with our normal load. Hopefully these will benefit the 48 residents’ children/adults. We also have an 8ft trampoline but we still have to obtain the safety net and the ladder. We are hoping this will be beneficial to everyone there.
The Doctors surgery:
We have a few items for them, a walking frame and some walking sticks. Dr Theodore was overwhelmed at the walking frames we took them last year, so will be on the lookout for a few more this year as well as various other able aids
Dr Stoyeova Baby Orphanage
We have some outdoor toys as they asked for but still not come across a trampoline for the youngsters yet. Emma our volunteer donated an outside pool with canopy and loads of balls so the children will love that. They are in need of outdoor toys, learning toys and dressing up costumes.
Netmums and Freegle have been very good in supplying what they can to us – In fact they are always there to support us even in our latest request where we needed help to fill an extra suitcase booked on the plane in error. We were offered the space and although we could not use it ourselves, I contacted the orphanage in the area our friends Irene and Dave were going to, which was Priateli in Vileko Ternova and asked what they would like us to fill the case with. They said underwear and socks. Irene and Dave agreed to take the case to VT themselves next week. We also put in 8 packets of biscuits as a little treat for the children. Thank you to Irene and Dave you are just wonderful.
The Home for the Elderly
Linen and towels and toiletries are always in need for this home plus the ‘knitting project’ is still ongoing so we are always in need of wool. We have one box of wool so far, Christine at Simplywool continues to send us parcels when she can. Thank you so much Christine you are an angel. We also received a parcel from Coates Crafts UK. Thank you for your support, we really appreciate it. We have a long way to go with the wool so if you know of any company that would donate wool or if you have unwanted wool please let us know.
Thanks to you all:
I have to mentions our fabulous supporter Steve W. He has been helping us for a while now, but this year he has decided to shop on line for us and have the items sent to us direct. See some of the toys he has sent us on the table below. Steve has bought all sorts, lots of cuddly toys, perfumes, cosy feet, toothbrushes creams etc. We just want to say a special thanks to you Steve, you are a GEM!! Also to another star! Sharon Toms, who has been buying toothbrushes, razors, toiletries etc every week, once again thanks a million. Not forgetting our number one collector Emma, our guardian angel has collected sorted washed and delivered goods for us. She is a total Gem and amazing person and like Rick they are both totally committed to our cause. Thanks to Netmums and Freegle members you have all been just amazing and we are just overwhelmed at your generosity and the support you always give us. Truly amazing lot thanks again.
We still have companies like Next, Gap and Tesco who continue to support us when they can. Needless to say we are truly thankful for all their support and without their help we would struggle.
We have the support of Tee Kay Packaging Fengate P’boro who supplies our boxes for packing. They are just amazing. Thank you so much. Also we have fantastic support from PC Howard Ltd Kings Cliffe Peterborough, who pick up and store all our goods ready for Sept. Thank you again, you have been just fantastic. We are just so lucky to have such wonderful support.
Finally thanks to all our helpers in Bulgaria, Bill our web coordinator, Nominal Accounting Ltd, Anglo-Info, Quest Magazine, Radio Trust, Pelican Guest House, British Lion Foods, NTZ Transport Delamode PLC, BT Homes, Sewage Solutions TBH Building Services and all our helpers and well wishers. Thanks a 1000 times over to everyone as we could not do this without your help.
Berni &
Dougie
Bulgarian Orphanage