a different project

[nirethak]

Last year my knitting group knit bears for http://www.motherbearproject.org/
I did not participate at that point; I had just had a miscarriage and wasn't up for knitting for children, and honestly, it seemed like a nice little feel good project, but one of those things that makes the giver feel good rather than the recipient. Given the enormity of the AIDS crisis in Africa, what difference can a little bear make?

But then I saw the photos of the kids receiving their bears:

http://www.motherbearproject.org/gallery/index.php

Like this photo: http://www.motherbearproject.org/gallery/index.php/Mali/P1010046
Or this one: http://www.motherbearproject.org/gallery/index.php/Congo/DSC_0023
Or the children here who made little slings to carry their bears in: http://www.motherbearproject.org/gallery/index.php/Kenya?page=2

And so even though I know that knit bears aren't going to solve the crisis, I also know that a child who is scared and lonely needs any bit of comfort they can get.

So I made some bears. We're sending them next week, but I certainly will make more.