Sponsor a Mum for a Month

One of the ways we help some of the women who come to us is to provide a small monthly cash allowance (usually between £60-£100) for the first two years of life, to help pay for things like nappies and toiletries, which are very expensive.

Raising money for this allowance would be a great way to get involved in the work of the Pro-Life Initiative. You or your group for example, could undertake to sponsor a particular mum for the whole or part of the period, or for a month as a one-off .

This would be a great activity for a pro-life group, a school or a parish, or as a sustained commitment for an individual looking to help us in our work. If you’re interested, get in touch and we’ll work out an individual plan to suit you or your group’s needs.

Thank you and God bless.

Anyone fancy a new project?

We are, as usual, on the scrounge. However, even for us, this is a slightly unusual request.

As part of our work we provide families in need with clothing and equipment. For babies this mainly involves prams, cots, etc. However if they have older children we like to give them toys. As in all things we’ve been blessed in this regard with the incredible generosity of our friends and we receive a huge variety of wonderul toys.

So this is our request. Can any of you sew? Are you looking for a project? We have a large number of Barbie’s and Action Men, minus clothing. We’d like to clothe them so that we can give them away.

There are however, a few things to note. In the case of Barbie - she’s often not clothed in a particularly chaste manner, and we’re very strict about what we give out. So we’re looking for slightly more modest outfits, to help make Barbie a bit classier.

For Action Man - we’re looking for less militaristic outfits. A lot of the families we work with are refugees and have had extremely bad experiences in conflict zones across the world. So we’re thinking more Val Doonican than Jean Claude Van Damme. They don’t have to be boring, just not too scary.

If anyone has any ideas or would like to contribute, we would be most appreciative. We’re not asking anyone to go out and buy outfits, but if you can sew, you have the time and you’re looking for an interesting project, please do consider. Thank you and God bless!

Special Delivery!

Responses to our appeal just keep flooding in. Yesterday, we received several buggies, double buggies, moses baskets and car seats from SPUC North-east.

We are extremely grateful to Eileen Brydon of SPUC who organized the delivery.

And a big thank you to Aidan and Dennis of Sunderland who hired a van and delivered everything up to Glasgow.

The pram situation is starting to look much healthier…

Thank you again to Eileen, Dennis and Aidan!

Buggy Appeal

The response to our appeal has been truly overwhelming. We’ve already recieved a number of buggies and baths and have had word that more are on the way.

The first of the buggies - thank you to our friends at Oscott! - providentially arrived and went out this morning, to a woman shortly due to give birth.

Thank you also to the lady who sent this one…

…it’s going out tomorrow.

Many, many thanks to all who’ve responded and particularly to Fr Tim for his initial post. God bless!

Thank you!!!

…for the amazing response to our last post. We are truly blessed to be surrounded by so many kind and generous friends. Deo gratias. You will all be in our prayers.

URGENT HELP REQUEST

Due to unprecedented demand we have a severe shortage of prams and buggies, which we desperately need over the next few days.

If you’re in the Glasgow area and have a pram or buggy, in good condition, that you no longer need, please do consider donating it to us. We have a number of women whose due dates are imminent and are in particular need of prams or buggies suitable from birth onwards.

We’re also in serious need of baby baths.

If you can help, please email us at:

 info(at)prolifeinitiative(dot)org

Or phone us at: 0141 433 2680

Thank you and God bless.

Pro-Life Resources

A quick help request…

As part of the 40th anniversary events we’re organizing, we’re putting together a number of pro-life slide-shows on different themes. What we’re looking for are sound-bites from people like Cardinal Winning, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI speaking on specifically pro-life related issues. These would be sound clips that we could play over PowerPoint presentations. If you know of good sites on the internet or if you would be able to email clips to us, please leave a comment on this post or email us at info@prolifeinitiative.org

Thank you and God bless.

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PLEASE NOTE: The email address featured in the original post has been altered- where it previously ended ‘.com’ it now ends ‘.org’ - Apologies for any confusion caused.

Can you help? Transport Needed

We’ve recently made contact with a friend in Stockton-on-Tees who has offered to provide us with large quantities of baby equipment. To make it worthwhile however, we’d have to get the items up to Scotland for little or no cost. So we thought we’d appeal to the blogsphere…

Do any of you commute between England and Scotland? Are you able to move these items between the north-east of England and somewhere in the vicinity of Glasgow? It could be either just as a one-off, or it could be on a more regular basis. Any help you could give us would be much appreciated. If you would be willing to help, or you know someone you would, please do get in touch.

Thank you and God bless.