Knit-a-Square

It's so much more than just knitting :)

As an off-spring from our fundraising projects, we started a couple of students knitting squares for Aids orphans in Africa, as part of the global Knit-a-Square project. We found some needles in a charity shop and people donated wool. I started off a large number of squares so people could just pick them up. I took them with me to PLT, and left a basket-full in the staffroom. Within a week not only did we have a large group of students knitting, but also more than half the staff. Some of the staff members had not knitted before, or had not done so since they were children. 

My favourite moments:

• having one boy who had achieved very little to date, and was regularly in trouble, sitting quietly chatting with me while he knitted his square - nobody else was allowed to do this one!
• the girls who took theirs home and brought them in each day for their form teacher to help them fix mistakes
• the quiet staff member who seldom comes to morning tea, now joining us and learning to knit
• and last, but not least . . . watching the boss attempting to crochet.

Details the original response to do something positive and take direct action to help the vulnerable and deprived children of South Africa.
Posted by Knit-a-square on Tuesday, 29 April 2014

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