At Thanksgiving dinner two years ago, my dear sister-in-law enlisted the family to knit or crochet hats for babies for the organizations, Warm Up America and Save the Children. The hats were a political statement to help increase our country’s leader’s awareness regarding the need for more and better healthcare for infants worldwide.
The leading cause of infant mortality is a lack of antibiotics, lack of a sterile scissors to cut the umbilical cord, and loss of heat through the head due to not having a hat. Now, how simple is the fix for these problems?
I followed the project on the Warm Up America website, and over 280,000 hats were made and donated. Most of the hats went to Africa for babies who were born prematurely. The instructions for making the hats indicated that the little heads they would be covering were the size of large walnuts to the size of lemons!
You can check out the website at www.warmupamerica.com and click on “Save the Children” to learn about this year’s project, where there are instructions for hat-making, and how and where to send the hats.
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