By Marion Cook
The Keiraville Branch of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) are always busy cooking and sewing and raising funds for the needy and creating things to help others less fortunate.
One way that our branch likes to help is the creation of our comfort teddies.
Each one is knitted or crocheted with varying colours, sewn together and stuffed at our teddy days and a unique face sewn on. Our wonderful communities often donate eight-ply yarn that helps with making our bears.
These beautiful comfort teddies are then donated to our local ambulance stations for paramedics to give to children who are taken to hospital by ambulance. Some teddies have been sent to nursing homes and the Indigenous ward of Westmead Hospital.
The teddies not only provide comfort – they can be a good distraction during a child’s journey.
One ambo recently commented that when they give a child a bear, they first ask them to give it a name. This gives the child something else to think about.
CWA Keiraville has other projects too and we are happy to welcome new ladies to our group.
Contact keiravillecwa@gmail.com
