The Great Socks or Slippers Campaign!

So far, I'm pretty amazed with the feedback and participation this small idea has been getting- thank you everyone for caring enough to want to do something wonderful for a little kid across the world that you don't even know. To those who are new to the blog and did not get the original email, here it is again:

Hi everyone,

Please feel free to pass along this message to anyone you know with a kind heart, it's important.

As our friends & family already know, we'll be going to Ukraine this August to adopt our first child- a little girl- from a Ukrainian orphanage. Even though the country has improved in the years since independence & democracy, the orphanages are still a pretty dreadful place for the kids to spend their childhood. They lack all sorts of things we take for granted in our own families, especially when it comes to providing some basic stuff for children like socks, shoes or slippers that fit properly. The kids have nothing of their own- even basics like underwear are considered as the most amazing, exciting thing imaginable. Could we say that our own children would feel that way with all the things they already have?

I'm starting a "Great Socks or Slippers Campaign" (or underwear!) and I'm inviting you to take part. If even a handful of people open their hearts to simply grab an extra pair of kids socks the next time they are at a grocery store or a Walmart, it would be a wonderful way to brighten the day of a child who has no family to provide for them. Or perhaps you are a knitter or are part of a church community looking for something small to do- those wonderful, colourful knit slippers would make a gift that will be remembered forever by a child who has absolutely nothing in this world. What a gift to know that someone, somewhere in the world thinks you are special, and that you matter enough to receive a present of your very own!

Please send to (deadline: August 20, 2010):
Socks or Slippers
PO BOX 3536
Champlain, NY 12919


Thanks & Blessings

***I have edited some of the info for reasons of privacy.