Thursday January 14th 2010
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If you’re like us your heart is breaking as you watch the reports of the death and devastation that the earthquake has brought to Haiti. One of the poorest countries in the Americas, where people live on less than $2 day, has been hit by another natural disaster.
The American Red Cross is estimating a death toll in excess of 40,000, and the lack of the most basic resources will make that toll rise if help is not immediate.
So here’s a way to help by donating to Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) and in return you gain free access to download the knitting patterns pictured below. For every dollar we raise one of our vendors will be matching (up to a maximum of $50,000). Knitting Fever, who supply us with some of your favorite yarns, including Noro, Louisa Harding and Sirdar have committed to making the match. Now that’s awesome – let’s see if we can max out that offer!
Click on comments below to get latest updates on fund raising.
Doctors without Borders work to provide medical aid in crisis situations – including natural disasters such as the Haiti earthquake. The Haiti disaster needs a rapid response with the specialized medical and logistical help that Doctors without Borders can provide.
| You know how much you pay for patterns, so be generous and get some great designs in return. All these have been donated by the designers, and all proceeds go directly to Doctors without Borders.
Go on, you know you want to, and as always thank you so much for your amazing generosity |
Check back soon - we'll be adding knitting and crochet items to our Chicken Wire Auction for you to peck at.
Thank you for providing us with such an easy way to help! I wish there was more we could do. They need doctors down there so badly right now. Also, thank you Knitting Fever for matching the funds raised – truly a great gesture!
Thanks to all of you t Wool & Company for organizing this effort, to Knitting Fever for their generosity, and many thanks to the pattern designers as well–an unnecessary but welcome gift.
A beautiful way to help. Thanks so much for setting this up. It is hard to watch all the devastation and not be able to so something. I appreciate the opportunity.
Just donated. Thanks for doing this.
I am happy to have been able to contribute to Doctors Without Borders. Aux Médicins sans Frontières, vous êtes une organisation rémarquable avec un cœur chaleureux et tendre. Je suis fière d’être en mesure d’apporter une contribution à vous. Je vous remercie beaucoup pour votre tendresse à.ceux qui ont besoin d’un peu de bonté.
And thank you, Wool and Company for giving us the chance to help! Huzzah!
“From this catastrophe, which follows so many others, we should make sure that it is a chance to get Haiti once and for all out of the curse it seems to have been stuck with for such a long time,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
I just did – thanks for doing this.
Thanks so much to Wool & Co and Lesley and Neil for posting this info. What a wonderful way to help. Thanks, you 2!