KOGO (Knit One Give One)
www.knitonegiveone.org

The project runs from March to August each year
(September to February: If you are an all-year-round knitter please store any finished garments for next year!)
Some Pharmacies act as collection points for the knitted items

Reports
from Ros and the kogo team

April 2010

Just a couple of knitting requests:

We have an abundance of "T shaped" knitted baby and children jumpers but would love more baby cardigans, beanies, bootees and cot blankets.

If you are making our 8ply stocking stitch beanie, you do NOT need to have a fold over brim (just 10 rows of band is sufficient) - this also cuts knitting time and the amount of wool that you use.

October 2009

Thank you for your great contribution to kogo 2009! The unbelievable support of all our volunteer knitters has enabled us to collect 20,000 hand knitted items this year (bringing our overall total to 42,000 items) to help keep the most vulnerable in our community a little warmer during the very cold winter weather. Your contribution provided not only physical warmth but also emotional support to the recipients - it is very important for them to know that the community cares.

As most of you would know, this year as well as making scarves and beanies, we took on the task of making woollies and blankets for the Bushfire Survivors. We received lots of beautiful items and amongst these were heaps of babies’ clothes. We decided to use some of these garments to put together gift packs for “new mums”. These packs were given to disadvantaged mums by the Royal Women’s Hospital, Monash Medical Centre and various other family outreach programs. Many of these women would never have had anything new for their babies. As you can imagine, they have been really well received and much appreciated, so we will definitely put them on the agenda for 2010.

We distributed our beautiful hand knits through the following very worthwhile organisations:

• Anglicare Dixon House

• Anglicare Mission House Fitzroy

• Ardoch Youth Foundation

• Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

• Bayside Comm Info & Support Service

• C.h.i.p.s.

• Caroline Lodge

• Community Info Glen Eira,

• Eastern Emergency Relief

• Emerald Hill Mission

• Family Life

• Hanover

• Impact for Women

• Inner South Comm Health Services

• Jewish Aid Australia

• Knox Infolink Inc

• Melbourne Citymission

• Mirabel Foundation

• Monash Medical Centre

• Open Family

• Operation Stitches

• Reach Out for Kids

• Royal Women's Hospital

• Sacred Heart Mission St Kilda

• Salvation Army

• Southern Peninsula Comm Support & Info

• Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre

• Rosy's

• Springvale Comm Aid & Advice Centre

• St Kilda Gatehouse

• St Vincent de Paul

• The Big Issue

• Uniting Care Harrison

• Wesley Mission

• Western Region Health Centre

There will be some changes to the kogo project next year but we will notify you of these when we recommence the project in March 2010.

If you are an all-year-round knitter please store any finished garments for next year!

Thank you once again for your fantastic contributions and we look forward to your continued support in 2010!

All the best,
Ros and the kogo team