Namaste Inc.

Thank you for your continued patience while awaiting the announcement for the charity drive raffle contest to support Soldier’s Angels.  Soldiers’ Angels is a volunteer-led 501(c)(3) non-profit with hundreds of thousands of volunteers providing aid and comfort to the men and women of the United States Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, veterans and their families.  They do this in a variety of ways, including sending handmade items to soldiers in the battlefield or in their hospital bed.  In addition, Soldier’s Angels currently donates to 93 Veteran’s Associations across the states. The following handmade (knit or crochet) items will be accepted in exchange for a raffle ticket to win one of our prizes:

• blankets/lapghans
• hats
• scarves
• prayer shawls
• trach bibs
• wheelchair/walker totes
• knitted/crocheted helmet liners

Yarn should be washable/dryable.  Variety of colors/patterns are appreciated.  For more information regarding patterns/suggestions for the above stated items, go to http://soldiersangels.org/crochet-craft.html

We at Namaste are accepting handmade donations in the form of any of the above mentioned items.  Each item submitted will earn the creator 1 raffle ticket, so the more items you send, the more chances you have to win in the prize drawing.  Each submission must include contact information of the sender, including email address, phone number, and address.

PRIZES:

3rd place: Hip Holster

2nd place: Messenger bag

1st place: Messenger bag & Hip Holster

Winners will be announced via blog post on September 10th 2010 and we will accept donations from now until then.

Please read below for more information reagarding Soldier’s Angels, the organization that will be the recipient of our charity drive.  As mentioned above, for specific pattern suggestions, please go to the Soldier’s Angels website:  http://soldiersangels.org/crochet-craft.html.  These patterns are intended as suggestions, but feel free to modify as you wish.

“May No Soldier Go Unloved,” encapsulates the motivation behind Soldiers’ Angels.   The volunteers of Soldiers’ Angels work tirelessly to demonstrate active care and concern for veterans, the wounded, deployed service members and their families.  To date, the Soldier’s Angels volunteers have sent hundreds of thousands of care packages and letters to deployed service members; they have supplied the wounded with their First Response Packs directly at the Combat Support Hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan and the major military hospital in Germany, as well as provided care and comfort to those in stateside military and VA facilities and have provided emergency aid to military families in need.

www.soldiersangels.com

To be a part of these care packages that are sent to some of the many men and women in uniform, just send your donations to Namaste headquarters, attention Soldiers Angels donation:

Namaste Inc.

attn: Soldier’s Angels donation

9025 Eton Ave.  Suite A

Canoga Park, CA  91304

www.soldiersangels.org

We look forward to donating to this worthwhile cause with your help.

Namaste….

UPDATE:  We have received some donations for the Soldier’s Angels charity and wanted to share them with you:

Christine K. (ravelry name: SheThatKnits) sent in 6 beautiful hats and 1 prayer shawl.  This donation earns Christine 7 chances to win the prizes in tomorrow’s drawing!Mary R. from Virginia generously donated 7 crocheted scarves, 4 hats, and 2 blankets, earning her 13 chances to win in the raffle drawing tomorrow.  Thanks Mary!!Karen B. donated a neckwarmer, a hat, and a beautiful scarf, to the Soldier’s Angels charity.  This donation earns her 3 chances to win, thanks Karen!Joann D. has generously donated her handiwork of 6 crocheted blankets and 4 hats, earning her 10 chances to win in our raffle tomorrow.  Thank you Joann!Peggy B. handmade 3 walker totes, 1 blanket, 1 hat, and 1 ear warmer.  This earns her 6 raffle tickets for tomorrow’s drawing- thanks for participating Peggy!Here is our last donation received Friday from IndyDi.  Thanks so much for the beautiful hats!  

And the winners are…………….

3rd place and winner of the Hip Holster:  Joanne Deyo from VA

2nd place and winner of the Messenger bag:  Diana from IN (Ravelry name: IndyDi)

1st place and winner of the Messenger bag & Hip Holster:  Mary R. from VA

Congratulations!!!  Please contact us at info@namasteinc.com to claim your prize.  Thank you to all who participated, the donations are being mailed to the Soldier’s Angels headquarters this week, and I know the soldier’s will really appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Stay tuned for our next charity event.

Namaste….

This entry was posted on Friday, June 18th, 2010 at 12:17 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.