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Welcome to Out With Animals!
On my blog, Ok Then What’s Next, I took part in a Christmas project for Post Pals. Post Pals is a charity where people can send post to children with severe or life threatening illnesses. As an adult with a chronic illness, I know how much it lifts my spirits to receive fun post- and I’m an adult! So volunteering to pretend to be a reindeer and send post in December seemed like a lot of fun and I knew it would help lift someone’s mood.
I’ve also been in contact with a charity called Help for Dominica, which sends relief and aid items along with arts, crafts and children’s resources to Dominica following Tropical Storm Erika in 2015. Another charity I’ve made a link with is Keta Keti Avenir, who support vulnerable and abandoned children in an orphanage in Nepal.
I love knitting and I have to spend a lot of time at home due to illness. So I decided to knit small animals, send them out on adventures, and write short stories about them. Then post them on to either a Post Pals child or a child/school in Dominica, who can read the story, take the animal on an adventure of their own and write their own story and share their photos if they want to. They can also see what other animals have been up to on this blog, Twitter or Instagram. If you want to find out more about Post Pals, Keta Keti Avenir or Help for Dominica, they can be found on Twitter and Facebook by searching their names.
Because I have a chronic illness too, there might be some time delays if I’m having a bad spell and I might need some help taking the animals out and taking photos of their adventures- so let me know if you want to be involved!
Donations and Sponsoring an Animal
I buy all the materials and fund this project myself, so sponsors/donations via PayPal or in wool are always welcome! Volunteering to take an animal out is free if you return the animal so that it can be posted on to a child for charity. If you (or your children) get really attached to it and would like to keep it, you can sponsor the animal for £7.50, and I’ll make an identical one to post off to the charity child. This covers the cost of materials for making another one.
If you’d like to donate, donations are gratefully received via PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/okthenwhatsnext
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