How to contact us
As we are all volunteers and we work out of our own homes, it is our preference that you contact us by email in the first instance.
Our email address is mums@stkildamums.org.
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Recommendations
If you have other material to donate, but are not sure who to contact we recommend the following:
Uplift Bras - For women in the third world a bra is often unobtainable or unaffordable. This project collects new and second hand bras and sends them wherever they have requests. They also re-home used cloth nappies. Cloth nappies are impossibly expensive for third world mums to buy. Poor women buy one disposable at a time, money better spent on food, and that disposable nappy often stays on all day.
Ziilch - A user-friendly, re-use and recycling website that allows you to give away items you no longer need and find free stuff.
Ebay - list at 99 cents to find a new home for stuff you no longer need
Fitted for Work - Assists women experiencing disadvantage to get work and keep by providing free interview appropriate clothing and through mentoring and transition to work programs.
Catchment Youth Services - For free removal of white goods, wheel rims, hot water service, bath, guttering, garage doors and sheds, aluminium frames, cook tops, motor bikes, car parts, bed frames, BBQs, metal pipes, lawn mowers, stoves, air conditioners, security doors, pots, pans, kitchen sinks, DVD players, microwaves, roof iron, PC hard drives, all steel. They will pay cash for copper, brass, tap fittings, aluminium, stainless steel, electrical wire, batteries, radiators and lead and will pick up no matter the size - one fridge or a large amounts. Phone Rodney 0438 133 053.
EERN - accepts donations of household essentials, white goods and furniture in the City of Whitehorse and abutting municipalities namely Manningham, Maroondah, Knox, Monash and Boroondara.
How your donations have helped
"I would like to offer my sincere thanks for the large donation of toys, books and puzzles. Shortly after this request, I had a phone call from my client, a 29 year old single mother with a 20 month old son, and she told me she had fallen and had a head injury. My client was traumatised after this event and overwhelmed with taking care of her son as she could not entertain him due to this injury. I took the box of special items over to her this morning. The reaction from both mother and child was wonderful; he kept saying “wow, look” and she burst into tears and said “I’m overwhelmed. There’s no way I could afford anything like this”. I feel grateful that I was able to watch their expressions and wanted to pass this onto you as you made this moment possible for them."
Natalie Leechman, Connections UnitingCare
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St Kilda Mums Inc. 2009
Our children helping us sort the toys donations... they get to touch and feel and help make up the toy bags. They understand that we are helping children that have no toys or who had toys and had to leave home suddenly and miss their old toys.
