Care Kits for Kids Qld Inc.

Care Kits supporters are you,
our Community.

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Our Partners & Sponsors

Ongoing community support is vital for our volunteers to keep providing Care Kits to the many children who need them.Β 
In just the first 6 months of 2023 we, together with our community, partners and sponsors, supplied more than 2,000 Care Kits to more than 2,000 Qld children in need.
Many thanks go to the amazing, generous and caring people in many organisations and businesses across all sectors of our community who have donated backpacks, end of stock, clothing, toiletries, toys, books, quilts, wraps and accessories, fabric, sewing needs, transport, Donation Points, andΒ  Financial Support.

πŸ’•THANK YOU πŸ’•
to all those listed below for having Made a Difference in the lives of children in need who received our Care Kits.

Will you help support our Care Kits by volunteering,Β  financially,
or in provision and donation ofΒ 
backpacks, contents, quilts, wraps or transport?

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Hand crafted stuffed pocket hearts can be sewn, as unique as each child who receives one!

What We Do - Who We Help

🧡 Can you SEW or CRAFT? 🧢

🧡 🧢 Our sewing and crafting groups use donated fabric and yarn in the #waronwaste to create:

🧡🧢 childrens clothes – babies to teens,

🧡🧢 toys,

🧡 pencil cases,

🧡 hair accessories,

🧡🧢 toy bags 34x43cm,

🧡🧢 toiletries bags 22x36cm,

🧡🧢 education bags 32x43cm with a 15x20cm pocket inside,

🧡🧢 fabric, knitted or crocheted stress balls or hearts

πŸ’– Beginners welcome.
Sewing machines, overlockers, precut fabric, yarn etc supplied.
Cost $2 for morning tea.
BYO smiles!

Contact us for further information or just turn up!

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Can you sew simple drawstring fabric BAGS?Β 
Larger scraps of donated fabric are used to sew fabric drawstring bagsΒ  to contain the clothing, toiletries, education supplies, and toys / book separately within the back packs.

Bag sizes are below:
EDUCATION bags: 32x43cm with a 15x20cm pocket inside. Double crocheted drawstring
TOILETRIES bags: 22x36cm; single crocheted drawstring.
TOY bags: 34x43cm. single crocheted drawstring.
Zippered PENCIL cases from medium weight fabric to fit into the education bags long enough for 1 15cm or 30 cm ruler.
Small lightweight JEWELLERY double ribbon drawstring bags for bracelets and hair bows.
Zippered or drawstring lightweight fabric cases for TISSUE packets / SANITARY items.
All of the bags have a single crocheted drawstring, except the education bags, which have a double drawstring.
Drawstrings are made from single crocheted yarn for safety reasons, and should only be slightly bigger than the bag (as advised by Qld Child Safety).
We can add these if required.
Any suitable fabric is fine.
(NO rubber backed curtain material).

QUILT SIZES may vary
– to whatever size you like depending on the textiles and time available.
Click here for a standardised guide.
Most children will be able to choose the size and colour they like the best.
Indigenous designs and colours are very popular.