Teddies for Tragedies

Welcome!

Calling all Knitters!

The project Teddies for Tragedies was started by Womens Royal Voluntary Services workers (W.R.V.S.). They started to knit teddy bears and their first batch went to Sudan in 1985, where the Emergency Care for Children (ECC) nurses were setting up a temporary orphanage in a refugee camp for 2,000 children with tuberculosis. The teddies were such a success that more were requested. Soon teddies were sent to Peru, Uganda, Zambia, Jamaica, Armenia, Calcutta, Thailand, Romania, Croatia, Albania and to Nepal. Doctors and nurses who treat children in the third world or war torn countries found that the teddies were sometimes as important to healing as the medicines. Of course each child gets to keep the teddy, so a continual supply is needed.

To-date, there are over 400 volunteers from Canada, the United States, Australia and Europe. For more information on this project, I invite you to visit the following link:
www.teddiesfortragedies.org

Projects are ongoing, therefore knitters are needed. Please contact Danielle Latreille at ldlatreille@bell.net for more information on current projects. Visit the photo pages for pictures on the latest projects.

For the Original Knitting Pattern see the following link:
www.teddiesfortragedies.org/ourpatrn.htm

Roll up the Rim Hat Project

We also need volunteers to knit Roll up the Rim Hats for the children in the cancer ward at CHEO.
For the Pattern see the following link: Roll up the Rim Hats