First, I want to start this post by celebrating this blog that is now over a year old! Hooray!!! I have been working very hard to complete a variety of projects that were unfinished when I started my Christmas season knitting. I just finished another blanket, like the purple one I knit last year except it is of the green and white tones. I will have this blanket for sale at my etsy store later this week or the beginning of the next. I have already started making another blanket with scraps of leftover yarn to then donate the blanket to Project Linus!
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| It covers a full size bed! |
New Non-profit Idea
As many of you know I have now taken on the endeavor of knitting full time since I'm no longer working. As a result of a conversation with my husband and my desire to save the world through knitting it was suggested that I should look into starting a non-profit organization to this effect. Understand that I only had this conversation yesterday but I have been thinking about the possibility nonstop! My husband even suggested his best man as a possible business partner. My idea for the non-profit would be a combination on Heifer International and Kiva. Instead of just providing others with knitted items my goal would be to teach them how to knit, crochet or sew to provide their own livelihood. Like the Chinese proverb "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." I would not stop just there though, because yarn is hard to come by in underdeveloped countries so if I provided a community with an alpaca, sheep, or rabbits and teach them how to shear the animals and make their own yarn it creates more jobs and a larger sense of community. I am also interested into whether beneficiaries of this non-profit might be able to make fishing nets and possibly mosquito nets.
I would be interested in starting the implementation of this non-profit in a place that is very near to my heart, Malawi. I would need to contact others to learn about making yarn and shearing animals as well as ways to watch out for the health of the animals to that they might be able to provide future offspring to continue the cycle. There will need to be a lot of thinking, planning and trial and error to possibly make this dream a reality. I will keep everyone appraised of any and all progress made on this front.
For now I will leave you will this quote: "Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice, which make philanthropy necessary." Martin Luther King Jr.
Until next time...same knit time....same knit channel!
