The other lot of knitting I’ve been doing lately is little woolly hats for Save the Children’s Knit One, Save One campaign. (Another link for USA)
Newborn babies lose a lot of heat from their heads. In colder countries, poor babies can lose so much heat that they get pneumonia – and at that point there’s no money for a doctor or medicines. Pneumonia still kills around 2 million children a year.
And in many cases, all it takes to save them is a little woolly hat. I’m a rather slow knitter, but each hat took me well under two hours.
If you want to knit one, the campaign’s on until October 21st, so you’ve got plenty of time. You can use any pattern for a newborn, or the one at http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/docs/knit-kit.pdf
And then please tell the politicians what you think of babies dying for lack of an ounce of wool!
