Teddies for Tragedies
Where teddies have gone
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In March 11 trucks left the UK, packed full of aid, ranging from food, clothes, household goods, toiletries and more... The "more" included lots of teddies. |
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In 2007 a group of six-formers took teddies on their World Challenge trip. Well done! And thank-you for reporting it on the World Challenge website, several more schools have now contacted us and more teddies will be traveling with students in the summer.
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Students from Warrington will be taking teddies on their travels to Romania, Egypt and Sri Lanka. Read about them in the
Warrington Guardian
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Also bound for Sri Lanka are a group of six-formers from a school near Huddersfield. They will work in a school that was affected by the 2004 tsunami and are packing 70 teddies.
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An International Teddy Effort Another group from Dundee will be taking teddies to an orphanage in Malaysia this year, but they won't all be starting off in UK. Several will be collected from a knitter in Kuala Lumpur. |
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| Teddies are also knitted in school knitting clubs. I'm sure everyone would like to see some pictures here? Or a special page about children helping children? | |
Find the odd one out... 
Meave, our youngest teddy fan asked Mum to send her teddies to babies in Zambia who don't have a mummy... |
WACIA - Women and Children in Africa In May 2007 Wacia took almost 200 teddies to Uganda. and many more in February this year. Thanks to all the knitter to responded to the call. There were more collected than need and these have were gladly accepted by the charity Shelterbox and more requested. |
| Cricket fans knit teddies Did you spot a knitter among the spectators at the Sri Lanka test matches? Finished teddies were delivered to a local orphanage. A great result, pity about the cricket. |
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| Bantul Kindergarten Indonesia Another batch of teddies arrived in Bantul in time for Christmas. (links below) |
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| LifeBox The Rotary Emergency Box Trust is now adding teddies to their Lifeboxes. What a good idea. |
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| Grassroots Within 24 hours of requesting teddies; over 200 we found and collected. Visit the Grassroots website to find out more about their work. |
| Mercy Ships Read about the newest Mercy Ship the Africa Mercy, that sailed from from Blyth on the 4th of May with 80 teddies aboard. Mercy Ships take lots of teddies from many sources, they can't get enough of them. |
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| February 2007: news from New Brunswick, Canada More teddies go to Haiti. |
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One of the projects of the Indonesian charity People for the community is the Bantul kindergarten in Yogyakarta. The first teddies arrived in November 2006, more arrived in December and yet more will be leaving soon, May 2007.
Please visit the
page of beautiful pictures. You may recognise your teddy. Many thanks go Bantul Kindergarten Project for the kind mention in the latest newsletter and we look forward to sending many more teddies. |
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This picture was sent from Growing Care Romania , who found boxes of teddies in the latest shipment of aid; sent by the
Rotary Club on the Isle of Wight. They said some were brightly coloured and these seemed to be the most popular. Knitters take note. |
Kampala update The promised pictures haven't arrived but much better, since Christmas over 80 more teddies have been sent to Kampala, some to a nursery and some have also been given to children in an AIDS day centre. Organisers have had an email from the school saying how much the children loved them. |
| Women's Refuge UK A church harvest festival produce was going to the local women's refuge, and a couple of teddies were included with a compliments slip for where to find more. What a great place for teddies! | Indonesia Malang, East Java In January 2007 a VSO volunteer packed some teddies when she left for Malang. Well done Naomi, we wish you well. | Uganda Kampala In October 2006 Jenny wrote... Had to tell you that 27 of my teddies have just been collected by a friend from church who is going out to Kampala and will give them to the children in the Hosanna school. They are going to take some photos. | Malawi More than 60 teddies have gone to Malawi from Bedlington, Northumberland. |
| Mexico
October 2006 - Guide leaders participating in a community project in Mexico took teddies with them. The teddies were given to nuns running orphanages in remote areas so we know they now have loving homes. We hope to get more teddies to them soon. |
| Rwanda
You may recognise the little girl in the centre, she features on the home page. This photograph taken by the charity Send a Cow of a group of happy children, with their teddies. Click on the photo for a larger version.
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 "Click for a big picture of all the happy faces")
And finally... (roll your mouse over the pictures for older stories)
| Simply Knitting Magazine | Kosovo | Romania | Asian Tsunami |
 "An article in the October 2006 edition, has helped spead the word to many more knitters. Thank you Simply Knitting")
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| If you've got a teddy story please tell so it can be added to the list. | |||
