As scrappers, one of the most important things we deal with on a daily basis are memories. Family memories, memories of loved ones, memories of holidays, birthdays, christenings, bbq’s and days at the beach. These families in Victoria have got no tangible evidence of their lives left. No family photos. No happy snaps. You can replace a fridge, but you can’t replace years of momentos.
In order to help out these family begin to put their lives back together I have started a scrapbooking plan - called “MEMORY GIFTS”.
Quite simply, I ask each and every one of you who read this blog to donate a 12 x 12inch almost completed scrapbook LO to the “Memory Gifts” program. Each page will be sent to me. I will collect them and bind them, then hand them over to the head of Pastoral Care for the Victorian Catholic Education Office, Maria Kirkwood in Melbourne. It will not be just Catholic families benefiting, it will be anyone who needs it. The albums will then be distributed to the principals of the 4 schools that burned down, who will know exactly who to give them to.
Each family devastated by fire will be (in time) given album pages to help them begin their memories again. Those families can then approach their own families for copies of photos to put into the albums, or simply start putting in fresh memories.
If you think you can help, please leave me a comment and I will reply with my postal address so that you can send on your page. Any help you can give will be much appreciated.
I plan to have these albums finished by the 20th of March - that gives us a month to get cracking and create as many pages as we can!
Many thanks on the behalf of the Victorian families who have lost everything.
Sares x
For more information please visit Sarah's blog : http://sares1911.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/what-a-week/
2 comments:
Cindy you show the true spirit of an Australian, I have been working 12 15 and 18 hour days at bushfire command and on roadblocks. Never have I seen and felt such warmth and kindness from the general public. Every second car offers to go get us a drink and about every 10th car just straight out gives us a drink or a home made cake.
People ask how the Emergency Service workers can keep going, in short its YOU the public and your kind words and thoughts. We all realize there are a LOT of people who are in a bad way, not one person at my station has uttered a word of complaint. We all know the big picture, the efforts such as yours (and I know what you personally are going through right now) are what keeps the effort alive, we will not rest until the job is done.
I take strength in the fact that you can fight through your own pain to help others you don't even know overcome their losses. Cindy, somewhere over the rainbow a pot of gold awaits you
Thank you; for your support, and for doing your own bit to help these people. It might be your job, but that alone doesn't mean that you do it well or with any heart, and I am sure that you do both.
See you again soon. Love to all your girls. Take care !
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