Miramichi women send homemade teddy bears to Haiti
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 | 11:16 AM AT
CBC News
Miramichi doctors are taking more than 200 teddy bears, knit by a group of local women, to children in a small Haitian village.
Dr. Tiffany Keenan and 12 others from the Miramichi Regional Hospital are joining a Canadian medical team that is working in a clinic in the impoverished country. Keenan says the brown bears with their colourful trousers and scarves help make a visit to the clinic easier for Haitian children.
"They're scared at first," Keenan said. "They don't know that they're allowed to take it, so once you say that you're allowed to take one of those, sometimes they'll give it a big kiss or a little hug."
Knitter Joan Somers says the members of the group she helped organize think about the children as their needles fly.
"Maybe it would be the only toy they would ever have, and they'd be able to cuddle it and hug it," Somers said. "Just to know that the child would be happy with some little thing of their own gives us pleasure in knitting them."
The group is already working on another batch of bears, this time headed for a clinic in Mexico.
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