THE members of the Dolau Women's Institute have been knitting squares in 2017 to make blankets for the Hereford based Hope Carriers Trust which supports a small rural community in Romania.

This year a total of 11 blankets have been sent out. Some of these went out last week together with Christmas shoe boxes full of goodies and some other gifts for the children in the orphanage at Popesti.

These were greatly augmented by the children from Llanfihangel Rhydithon School in Dolau joining in with the WI, and David Hill from Bodenham came along to show slides and talk about the Trust's work with the children and collect the goods from the school.