I don’t normally blog about my personal life….but I feel very strongly about this cause so have made an exception.
My little sister is in the RAAF (Royal Australian Airforce) and all the people around her are sent away at various times for various important jobs that make our lives nice and save. Including helping to evacuate and relocate Queenslanders when they where flooded last year, bringing emergency aid overseas, patrolling our borders – The list goes on and on.
My brother in law has been sent to a couple of not very nice places the past few years (including the clean up after the Tsunami in Indonesia, and twice to a very violent war zone. Everytime he is lucky enough to come back in one piece…BUT memories stay with you. These husbands, wifes, parents, brothers, sisters see things we will never see in our life. They are haunted by what they have seen and what they had to do. They might be soldiers trained in the field but they remain humans with human feelings and emotions.
When most come back home they need lots of counseling to help them get back to their normal lives. And Lifeline plays a very important role. If only the veterans from world War 1 and 2 had of had access to Lifeline – a lot of lives would have been saved!
ANYWAY, my little sister (she is not that little – she is in her 30’s!) has rounded up some of her colleagues from the RAAF, Army and Navy to walk to raise money. So far they have pencilled in 2 walks. One in Canberra in March and 1 in July in Nijmegen which is 4 days long – 50km per day!
Their aim is to raise $10 000 for Lifeline.
To help them raise money I have ordered in some non-Scrapbooking items and for each back pack sold I will donate $5, for every lunch bag $3.50 and $2 per bib. The products are already below RRP. This are not our normal line of stock – these have been purchased purely to help fundraise.
I have listed all of them online and there are limited amounts of each. To make the paper work a little easier for me could you please purchase them from my website even if you are coming in store to pay and pick up?
You can buy them here.
Here are some of the products:
