Sponsor A Sack of 'Square Hugs' and Warmth

Turkey is home to the largest refugee population in the world. As temperatures drop to well below freezing they aren’t equipped to handle the freezing temperatures and icy conditions and without proper winter clothing, warm shelter, blankets etc.

photo courtesy of Tamer Altaiar 

Our blankets are made from knitted/crochet squares which come from around and are stitched together by Lily's team of stitchers. Each square is a hug from someone who cares. Likewise our warm clothing is made by sewers, knitters and crocheters from all walks of life and almost every country in the world. 

Please help us meet the cost of sending out the blankets (square hugs) and warm clothing by sponsoring a sack of Warmth  for £7 ($9)so we can continue to let the children living in the camps know that we do care and they aren't forgotten especially as the weather is so cold at the moment. To Sponsor a Sack of Warmth  you can pay via PayPal. Sacks are packed ready to be sent. We will be sending to Hatay via Tamer at Drop of Hope, Adana via Mahmood  and Konya via Anas who will distribute them to the children on our behalf. 

Each of our sacks typically contain 6 full size blankets or 12-15 baby/children's blankets.  100 hats and scarves or 30- 40 sweaters. We will send you a photo of your sack with a list of its contents and will include any message you wish to send to the Syrian children. 

Please help us to bring a little warmth and comfort with lots of 'square hugs '

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Help Provide Education for Syrian Refugees

We feel refugee education should be a top priority.  Recent studies by U.N.C.H.R and AFAD show that Syrian refugees living in camps are in need of basic education at all levels and underlies the magnitude of scarcity for education programmes in camps. In the past camp education has relied on volunteers.  Some were teachers in Syria but most were not. As volunteers are not bound by hard and fast schedules or curriculum their instruction and time with the children is often inconsistent. We want to employ qualified teachers and will be using elements of the official Turkish curriculum to enable students to transfer to the Turkish schools and elements of the Syrian curriculum to enable education to continue in Syria should the day come when they can return. Apart from paying the teachers salary there is a  need to purchase Teaching aids, Text books, notebooks, stationery, chalkboards, desk, chairs, laptop to enable the children to learn about the worldwide web,  fans for the heat and heaters for the winter. We would also like to provide each child with their own school bag. For those children able to attend in the Turkish schooling system we hope to be able to help with transport and the purchase of uniforms etc and hopefully  provide a scholarship to a limited number of children. This is a very ambitious project but I am sure we can achieve it with your help.  paypal.me/LilyTurkey  we have made a start by collecting pens,pencils etc and making pencil cases in our stitching group and purchasing school bags.

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How To Donate To LILY

There are several ways you can donate to donate to help Syrian Children living in Turkey :

We are always happy to receive your knitted, crochet,sewn, bought or good quality second hand clothing, toys and 8inch squares which we ten sew into blankets, we distribute them to Syrian children living in Turkey. There is now a customs tax on all parcels coming in from abroad which has to be paid by LILY upon receipt of parcel. 

The address to send them to is: 
Dianne Jones
                                               
  Türkmen Mahlesi
                                                  
Sürücü Sokak No.11/1
                                                 
 Kuşadasi
                                                 
 Aydin
                                               
  Turkey
Please mark all parcels 'For charity no commercial value'
In distributing these items we need help with funding for transport or cargo.

PayPal  paypal.me/LilyTurkey

Transferwise is easy and safe to use. Low rates and very quick. 

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By Western Union to 

Dianne Barbara Jones

By Bank transfer to: 
Owner Name: Dianne Barbara Jones

Bank Address: Camikebir Mahallesi, Atatürk Bulvarı No:18, Kusadasi, Aydin, Aydin, 09400, Turkey

Account Number: 80899009

Country: TR

BIC: YAPITRISFEX

IBan :                                                 
  TR41 0006 7010 0000 0080 8990 09

Our Go Get Funding is :  https://gogetfunding.com/flour-for-syrian-refugees/ takes 60days to reach us.

Make It Your New Year Resolution To Help Syrian Children!

 Photograph: Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images

Over half of the people displaced by the Syria crisis are children and every two minutes, another child from Syria becomes a refugee. Since the begining of this crisis and the first refugees came across the border into Turkey LILY has sworn to help bring a little comfort to Syria's children and to show them that they are not forgotten - that we DO care.

Here are some of the ways you can help us to provide that comfort:

If you are a knitter or crocheter please consider making an 8inch square or two with your odds and ends of yarn. It's a great way to bust your stash and the squares will be joined to form blankets and given to Syrian refugees. Every square is a hug from someone who cares! you can also send us completed blankets if you prefer.

We also need Sweaters, Hats, scarves, gloves, socks infact anything that will help to keep a child warm during the cold winter months.

If you do not knit or crochet maybe you would like to make a donation to help to pay for the transportation costs- we make a delivery into the camps every month. You can do this by clicking on the Donate button at the side of this page.

Lack of access to food and severe malnutrition have meant that mothers have been unable to feed their babies adequately. In addition, the conflict has made orphans of tens of thousands of children, and these include countless motherless babies, who may have been left in the care of grandmothers or other relatives.

'LILY' has been regularly supplying milk formula to hundreds of babies in the hard-hit areas every month. We urgently need babies bottles to be able to feed these babie the formula, giving these innocent infants a fighting chance of survival in the hostile circumstances into which they have been born.Therefore I am asking if you could spare a few pounds/ dollars etc. to enable us to buy bottles to be able to feed them the formula to help save these baby's lives.

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We also desperately need to provide the Syrian women and teenage girls sanitary napkins... something we all take for granted but are in very short supply in the refugee camps. You can help by making a donation and we will purchase baby formula, bottles and sanitary napkins locally and supply the camps on your behalf.

We have heard stories of Syrian mothers having to resort to using plastic bags instead of nappies and as you can imagin this causes terrible sores and babies needing medical attention. We (LILY) try to supply nappies as often as possible but disposable nappies are expensive. As there are over  30,000 babies registered in 24 refugee camps along border areas with Syria and Turkey and While the exodus to Turkey continues unabated, the population of newborn babies to Syrian refugee mothers also increases day by day..... that's a lot of nappies!
I have found a family run factory here in Turkey that makes flat toweling nappies that will sell them to LILY at a greatly reduced price. These will fit all ages.... so the same nappies will last one child from baby right through to toddler stage and are easy to wash thoroughly by hand and quick to dry. We can buy a pack of 12 re-usable toweling 100% Turkish cotton nappies 60cm x 60cm for 28 turkish lira which works out around 7 pounds sterling (10 us dollars).
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The denial of bread - has become a weapon of war!

Bakeries providing a lifeline to communities have become a regular target for air strikes.
The acute suffering of civilian communities has been made immeasurably worse by a shortage of bread, Syrian’s staple food, caused in part by the deliberate bombing of bakeries. At 'LILY' we are doing our best to try and ease the plight of the Syrian civilian population, who feel abandoned by the rest of the world by making sure that they at least get fresh bread daily. Families queue up for hours in the hope of purchasing even a single bag of bread, and frequently return home empty-handed.
Due to your generous support for our Syria Bread  Appeal in August 2014, 'LILY' and local partners were able to refurbish and restore an abandoned bakery in Idlib which had been forced to shutdown due to fuel and flour shortages.  We have  been able to supply bread to 5 villages, providing bread for around 2,200 families. We need your support to ensure that we are able to provide this lifeline!

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As more and more Syrians are fleeing Syria and trying to head for Europe we are starting to find Syrian families on the Streets of Kuşadasi as we are less than 1 hour away across the sea from the Greek island of Samos. When we can we help them by feeding and clothing them plus help to find them shelter. If you could spare a lira (pound, dollar) or two that would be a great help. Please use the donate buttons below.

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Images of children with no shoes in the bitter winter snow and mud in the past years have prompted LILY to lauch a shoe appeal these last four years. Therefore once again we are asking for your help.

LILY's helpers have visited many Syrian families in Turkey and witnessed the conditions they lived in and seen the numerous children without shoes or any kind of footwear. As have we here in Kuşadasi as many of the the Syrian refugees arriving here and sleeping on the streets have no or inadequate footwear for the winter.

We are asking you to donate just 5 British Pounds (8 US Dollar) which will buy a child a pair of winter shoes/ boots. Being able to source them locally helps us to get them to the Syrian children quicker.

As the cold season approaches, responding quickly is crucial. 

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Together We Can Make A Difference!

 'Lily' is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.

'Lily' has no paid employees.  All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.

'Lily' wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us.  Without you, there would be no 'Lily' - Love In the Language of Yarn.  We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.

Dianne Jones - Founder of  'Lily'- Love In the Language of Yarn.
Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones
Türkmen Mahlesi

Sürücü Sokak

Yildrim Apart 11/2

Kuşadasi

Aydin 

Turkey.

You can also find us at:  https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn

Help 'LILY' Provide A Little Comfort For Syrian Children

Syrian refugees at a refugee camp in the Turkish border town of Yayladagi. Photograph: Umit Bektas/Reuters

At the beginning of this year, it was estimated that the number of Syrian refugees would hit one million by the middle of 2013. That grim threshold was reached last month, which turned out to be the two-year-old conflict's deadliest month. And, today just six weeks later, there are 1.3 million Syrian refugees. In late March, Antonio Guterres, the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees, told a Congressional hearing that there might be as many as four million Syrian refugees by the end of 2013. Also in March, the UN estimated that there were 3.6 million internally displaced persons in Syria; the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is likely to revise that number upwards perhaps as high as 4.5 million, in the coming weeks. Even though Turkey is currently in the process of building six new refugee camps, on top of the 17 that already exist Turkey's camps can't expand fast enough for all the new Syrian Refugees and, along the Turkish-Syrian border, there are an estimated 100,000 people living between the front lines of the conflict and Turkish border.

Can you help us provide a little comfort for the children in these camps?

 Any spare wool you have can be knitted, crocheted or woven into eight inch squares and then we'll stitch them all together into a blanket. No waste and a child with nothing gets a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!

I realise the cost of sending items by post especially to Turkey can be costly which is why we are asking for just 3 squares ( of course we'll also accept more). If you could knit or crochet just 3 squares they would fit easily into an envelope and postage shouldn't be too great!

It really will make a difference to a child's life!

We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets.
You can also find us at:  https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn

Help us make a difference today!

Please Help If You Can!

'Lily' is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.

'Lily' has no paid employees.  All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.

'Lily' wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us.  Without you, there would be no 'Lily' - Love In the Language of Yarn.  We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.

Dianne Jones - Founder of  'Lily'- Love In the Language of Yarn.
Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones
                   Türkmen Mahlesi
                    Ünlü sokak No 10 D4
                    Kuşadası
                    Aydin
                    Turkey.

We now also have a  branch in Jordan, the address to send squares to Jordan is 

'LILY' C/O  A Mencke

P.O. Box  2842

Jubeiha

Jordan, 11941

Blankets for 2 New Syrian Refugee Camps In Turkey.

Syrian refugee camp in Turkey (Reuters)

Turkey is building two camps along its far southeastern border with Syria to house a growing number of refugees from Syrian minority groups, mainly Assyrian Christians as well as ethnic Kurds. More 250,000 Syrians fleeing civil war in their homeland have registered in Turkey, most of whom stay in 17 camps along the 900-km (560-mile) border, although the total number of refugees is closer to 400,000. The two tented camps, to be completed in less than a month, are being built in Midyat, a town in southeastern Mardin province some 50 km from the Syrian border. One camp with a capacity of 2,500 people will house mainly Assyrian Christians as well as refugees from other Christian denominations. The other camp will have a capacity of 3,000 and would house any Syrian Kurds fleeing the violence. We have been asked if we could help out with supplying blankets.

Can you help us? with just three 8inch squares. Any spare wool you have can be knitted, crocheted or woven into eight inch squares and then we'll stitch them all together into a blanket. No waste and a child with nothing gets a warm and colourful, cover for their bed!

I realise the cost of sending items by post especially to Turkey can be costly which is why we are asking for just 3 squares ( ofcourse we'll also accept more). If you could knit or chrochet just 3 squares they would fit easily into an envelope and postage shouldn't be too great!

It really will make a difference to a child's life!

We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets.
You can also find us at:  https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn

Help us make a difference today!

Please Help If You Can!

'Lily' is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.

'Lily' has no paid employees.  All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.

'Lily' wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us.  Without you, there would be no 'Lily' - Love In the Language of Yarn.  We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.

Dianne Jones - Founder of  'Lily'- Love In the Language of Yarn.
Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones
                   Türkmen Mahlesi
                    Ünlü sokak No 10 D4
                    Kuşadası
                    Aydin
                    Turkey.

We now also have a  branch in Jordan, the address to send squares to Jordan is 

'LILY' C/O  A Mencke

P.O. Box  2842

Jubeiha

Jordan, 11941

Knit For Syria's Children.

Families seeking refuge inside Syria have had to endure two winters that saw snow fall across much

of the country, with temperatures as low as -8°C. Families fled, often without enough time to gather winter clothing for children. This winter, rationing of the power supply severely limited electric heating. Shortages of fuel pushed the price of kerosene up by as much as 500%, making it impossible for the poorest families to heat their shelters; in one area, 80% of households could not afford heating. This makes warm shelters and blankets all the more important, but in 2012 only 30% of those who needed blankets received them.

It really will make a difference to a child's life!

We work with reputable, experienced relief agencies to securely transport and distribute our hand-knit and crocheted blankets.
You can also find us at:  https://www.facebook.com/LilyLoveInTheLanguageOfYarn

Help us make a difference today!

Knitting Instructions

FOR ONE 8"/20 cms SQUARE, you will need:

Yarn from a 100 gram (3.5 oz) ball of yarn or scraps of yarn 

 worsted weight , double knit or 8ply

Size 4mm needles  6 (USA)

A yarn sewing needle.

 Cast on 40 stitches (try to make your stitches neither too loose nor too tight to help ensure uniform squares)

 Row 1: knit

 Row 2: knit. These two rows form the 'garter' stitch knitting pattern for your square but you use any stitch you prefer, beascreative as you like. Continue knitting  until you have knitted a square

 To ensure you square is 8"/20cm either use a tape measure .

 Cast off
 Use your yarn sewing needle to sew in all the yarn ends using a darning method

VERY IMPORTANT 
Leave a one metre length of your yarn attached to your work after you have cast off. This will be used to join the squares together. but if you're changing colors work in your other tails.  DO NOT TIE AND CUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE KNOT, THAT IS GUARANTEED TO COME UNDONE.  Knot if you want, but leave a tail and work in your ends.

Please Help If You Can!

'Lily' is supported by businesses and individuals in Turkey, whether it be donations of yarn, Knitting and Crocheting or transportation of completed blankets to receiving agencies.

'Lily' has no paid employees.  All the good work is done on a strictly volunteer basis.

'Lily' wishes to thank all those private individuals and businesses which support us.  Without you, there would be no 'Lily' - Love In the Language of Yarn.  We work hard for the day when we are no longer needed to help keep Children warm.

Dianne Jones - Founder of  'Lily'- Love In the Language of Yarn.
Address - 'LILY' C/O Dianne Jones
                   Türkmen Mahlesi
                    Ünlü sokak No 10 D4
                    Kuşadası
                    Aydin
                    Turkey.

We now also have a  branch in Jordan, the address to send squares to Jordan is 

'LILY' C/O  A Mencke

P.O. Box  2842

Jubeiha

Jordan, 11941