HARVEST FOR THE HUNGRY VISIT STUDIO
17th October 2006
17th October 2006
Hospital Radio Colchester were pleased to welcome Mike Daniels representing Harvest for the Hungry into the studio to tell the listeners all about their project. Harvest for the Hungry send humanitarian aid – food boxes - to Eastern Europe - principally Bulgaria. This is the 7th year the project has taken place in Essex. Individuals take and fill a box, return it with £3, and it is later driven to Bulgaria. Boxes number about 6400 (70 tons) and taking part are 140 schools, 30+ Churches, and 40 businesses. A Harvest Thanksgiving service is held in the Meadows Shopping Centre, Chelmsford and following this the lorries leave on their
journey to individual families, institutions, old people’s homes and orphanages.
The team from Mersea have a depot and have collected 300+ boxes with the help of the Mayor, local shops and the army! Everyone contributes their time, equipment etc FREE! The project will be repeated in 2007. Harvest for the Hungry involves people practically, children are encouraged to think of others, the help gets to those who need it, whole community can be involved – individuals, schools, Churches, businesses, local politicians, military to name a few.
The team from Mersea have a depot and have collected 300+ boxes with the help of the Mayor, local shops and the army! Everyone contributes their time, equipment etc FREE! The project will be repeated in 2007. Harvest for the Hungry involves people practically, children are encouraged to think of others, the help gets to those who need it, whole community can be involved – individuals, schools, Churches, businesses, local politicians, military to name a few.
If you are a knitter then Harvest for the Hungry left us with some instructions of how you could help:
Could you and some friends knit Blanket Squares for Harvest?
• Double Knitting Wool – any colour
• Number 8 Needles
• 7 inch Squares (approx 40 stitches) – ideally knitted on the diagonal (but not essential!)
• Leave a 9 inch length of wool at the end
If you can make up a blanket:
• Lay out 9 x 11 squares and arrange them to ‘look nice’
• Stitch or Crochet the squares together (9 x 11)
• Give the blanket a good edge by finishing off with 2 or 3 rows of Crochet around the edge of the blanket.
For more details see the Harvest for the Hungry website at www.harvestforthehungry.co.uk
Could you and some friends knit Blanket Squares for Harvest?
• Double Knitting Wool – any colour
• Number 8 Needles
• 7 inch Squares (approx 40 stitches) – ideally knitted on the diagonal (but not essential!)
• Leave a 9 inch length of wool at the end
If you can make up a blanket:
• Lay out 9 x 11 squares and arrange them to ‘look nice’
• Stitch or Crochet the squares together (9 x 11)
• Give the blanket a good edge by finishing off with 2 or 3 rows of Crochet around the edge of the blanket.
For more details see the Harvest for the Hungry website at www.harvestforthehungry.co.uk
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