Dear all

We now have 11 schools in the project. We welcome Viviane  Maito who teaches in the Hospital de Clínicas do Paraná- (Hospital for clinical of Paraná)  in the treatment of cancer in Brazil.  My aim is still to get to 12. I have received squares from Jody in Ireland Tuija in Finland, Niina in Finland and Marion from New Zealand has emailed me to say that their squares are in the mail. The staff and students have done a fantastic job. Please look at a picture of their squares on the website.

 Tuija I hope all is going well with your leave and the baby please write soon with an update. I have been using an online translator to correspond with Dominique in Belgium and Angela and Viviane in Brazil. They tell me they do get the meaning but have a good laugh at the way the translator translates some words.

On this page are pictures of the squares we have currently received. I'll put more up as I get them. I'll also get copies of the information you have sent with your squares and we'll make a booklet out of it and put some of the pictures the children in Finland have sent of their country.

My plan is to send out the squares late November early December.

If you would like your hospital to be involved in this project, what you need to do is make twelve squares.  The squares should be thirty centimetres (twelve inches) square.  The base material should be cotton but other fabrics eg felt can be used to embellish the square. They do not have to be complicated.  Squares should represent something about your school or country.

When you have finished your twelve squares, you can send them to the address below and we will package up your twelve international squares and send them to you.  If you write a paragraph about your school and your square we will produce a short booklet to go with the wall hanging and to be sent with your final squares.

Thanks all for you assistance.

Kind regards
Kev Rodgers
Barrett Adolescent Centre School
Orford Drive
WACOL QLD 4076

krodg9@eq.edu.au