FIVE ladies from the Chelsea Retirement Village have knitted a beautiful blanket and donated it to the Open Door Crisis Care Centre.
The blanket will, in turn, be raffled to raise funds for the care centre.
Rita Henning, Daphne Humphrey, Sue Humphreys, Sheila Fouche and Diane Clark said they were thrilled with what they put together in just a month.
“We were approached by Open Door’s Thora Mansfield to make this blanket, and we were more than willing to come on board,” said one of the knitters, Sue Humphreys.
The ladies are part of the Knit and Knatter group where most of them knit for charities.
“Although we were not sure of what to knit, Sue came up with the pattern of the safe houses. It was quite intriguing and fun, so we knitted houses which were then put together by Diane – we were thrilled with the outcome,” said Humphrey with pride.
Mansfied, who is the founder of Open Door, said she was most impressed with what the ladies managed to do in such a short space of time.
“The blanket, along with a knee rug and a beautifully embroidered wall art, will be the three prizes that will be raffled, and the winners will be chosen at Knowles SPAR on Mandela Day.”
She said, “This blanket is in line with Mandela’s Walk to Freedom as it ties in with what the centre does for the victims as they walk into a safe home free from abuse and violence from an abuser, offering healing and restoration through counselling and psycho social services” she said with a smile.
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Mansfield said the funds will help towards funding for their safe house for abused women and victims of human trafficking.
The care centre in Pinetown was started in 1997 and is regarded as a leading organisation in the country in lobbying for better service provision for victims of all forms of crime, both in homes, communities and in the workplace.
It aims to sustain a holistic, multifaceted one-stop crisis and trauma centre, offering counselling, social services and support groups.
“We are appealing for people to buy tickets for the raffle as, like other NGOs, we are really struggling. First it was Covid, then the looting, then the flooding.”
The raffle tickets cost R50.
To buy a ticket, visit admin@opendoor.org.za or contact the office number on 031 709 2679.
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