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Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies, In The News
How many times have you heard sad stories from around the world and wished you could do something about it? Well, some people have banded together, started their own group and made a difference.
Inspired by the State of the World's Mothers last year,people from across the country, including children, started knitting baby caps to help with infant mortality. In the past year, 20,000 people have knitted 260,000 baby caps for the Caps to the Capital project. Among those include a group of 80 third graders from a Houston-area school.
About 10,000 people also wrote letters to lawmakers asking for increased child survival funding.
This sounds like a great project for a variety of reasons. First, the kids are learning to knit, second they are becoming part of something bigger and third, realizing that they don't have to sit by when they hear of something bad happening in the world.
If you're interested in this project, you can go here to learn more.
Thanks to Ann for the tip!
Inspired by the State of the World's Mothers last year,people from across the country, including children, started knitting baby caps to help with infant mortality. In the past year, 20,000 people have knitted 260,000 baby caps for the Caps to the Capital project. Among those include a group of 80 third graders from a Houston-area school.
About 10,000 people also wrote letters to lawmakers asking for increased child survival funding.
This sounds like a great project for a variety of reasons. First, the kids are learning to knit, second they are becoming part of something bigger and third, realizing that they don't have to sit by when they hear of something bad happening in the world.
If you're interested in this project, you can go here to learn more.
Thanks to Ann for the tip!
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2-07-2007 @ 1:10PM
Tamyu said...Besides being a beautiful project... Just looking at their page seriously brought tears to my eyes. Having a tiny, sick baby is bad enough, but to be somewhere without the most modern medical care to help... I can`t even imagine.
The pictures of the tiny babies on their page really did make me cry. I know all too well what they`re up against, even with the most modern of care.
If I could knit, I would be sending them little hats.
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2-07-2007 @ 2:24PM
Ann Adams said...Rachel, thanks. I posted this on my own blog and have heard from several people who are making them for hospitals in this country as well.
It seems to be a first for kids though.
And some wondered about crochet. I don't know but I'll try to find out if a crocheted bonnes would work.
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2-07-2007 @ 2:24PM
Ann Adams said...Rachel, thanks. I posted this on my own blog and have heard from several people who are making them for hospitals in this country as well.
It seems to be a first for kids though.
And some wondered about crochet. I don't know but I'll try to find out if a crocheted bonnes would work.
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2-07-2007 @ 2:25PM
Ann Adams said...You have my permission to delete one of those. I don't know what happened.
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