Knit a hat for a happy newborn
Knit a hat for a happy newborn
The 50,000 Happy Birthdays program has launched a knitting campaign for babies saved in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia through this program. Through this knitting campaign, we want to support the efforts of the midwives, and celebrate the babies that they save. Every hat you knit and donate will keep newborns in low resource settings warm, helping them stay healthy.
Use this pattern and make as many hats as you want!
Empowering midwives to help mothers and babies survive
The goal of the 50,000 Happy Birthday program is to contribute to quality maternal and newborn care by strengthening midwives' competencies in saving lives at birth in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tanzania — following on from the 10, 000 Happy Birthdays in Malawi and Zambia. This will be achieved by using the simulation-based Helping Mothers Survive and Helping Babies Survive programs to train, equip and empower midwives to be lifesavers.
Why hats?
Babies, even in warm countries in Africa, loose body heat after birth which can cause complications. Putting a hat on keeps them warm and healthy, and is espeically important for babies that are born to soon and preterm.
You can send your finished hats by post to:
Laerdal Global Health
(Happy Newborn Hats)
Tanke Svilandsgate 30
4002 Stavanger, Norway
We will soon have other addresses for shipping in the US and Europe.
We will make sure the donated hats get to happy newborns and their families, through the midwives associations in Ethiopia Rwanda and Tanzania.