NEWS!

1. PFSE will have a stand at local fetes - busy preparing and hoping to find more Volunteers.

We have been having trug-making days

Getting started (Jean chatting with Margaret Stratton who is going to Kalene, Zambia)

The trugs taking shape

2. The first Trip with Paper Furniture Social Enterprise Volunteers is being planned.

The Tiwi Group of people with Disabilities in Kenya are helping children with disabilities! They organise meetings and an Occupational Therapist travels to help the children. Now the Tiwi group will learn to make equipment so that the children can have good support sitting and doing everyday tasks at home. Jean, Libby and Margaret are preparing to run a course in making APT chairs and other useful items with the group

Tiwi group leaders and community leader representative at meeting to discuss this last year

3. Paper Furniture Social Enterprise is going to rent a workshop space from Ian McNeill Horse Supplies in Medstead

Work has started to clean and paint the workshop!

Kennett and Libby in full swing. Lots of cleaning done by Jane, Sue and Margaret

First order for Paper Furniture Social Enterprise

The work of Charity Treasurers can be wide and varied. Beatrice, the Treasurer for Cerebral Palsy Africa, set our new Paper Furniture Social Enterprise (PFSE) group into action.

She gave us our first order - steps to help her reach the high shelves.

The steps made with stripes being organised.

Margaret was visiting from Uganda and liked the Paper Furniture items very much.

She is field-testing the steps.

From Beatrice:

Just to report that the steps arrived this morning and the green stripes look fine. It fits exactly where I wanted it.

Just to add to the description of the steps. The design is really thought through. I have used the steps today several times and I like that it has this "grip" under the top step, so it is easy to grab and shift around.