Transcript “Operation: Papoose” A Soft Beginning for Babies in Haiti Many Haitian women walk miles to deliver their babies, with no promise of delivering in.

“Operation: Papoose”
A Soft Beginning for Babies in Haiti
Many Haitian women walk miles
to deliver their babies, with no
promise of delivering in a bed.
Many have to walk home after
delivery with their newborns
wrapped in newspapers.
Please help wrap these precious
babies in warm, clean blankets
•97% are without healthcare
•1.5 million are homeless
•80% live in abject poverty
•1 out of 5 will die before age 5
•>400,000 are orphans
Collecting any type of
clean Baby Blanket:
gently used, new,
handmade and /or
SCRAPS OF Fabrics
to make BLANKETS
WITH:
Medical Mission
Organizations will
hand deliver to
healthcare workers
for mothers in need.
Pictures will be sent
back to show how
they were received.
BLANKETS (SEE GUIDELINES) &
FABRIC for making blankets (see
guidelines)
SUGGESTIONS
SELECTING OR MAKING BLANKETS:
Due to the warmth of Haiti and poverty:
1. LIGHT-WEIGHT FLEECE/FLANNEL/SOFT
FABRIC
2. @ 40X44 INCHES OR BIG ENOUGH TO
GROW WITH
3. CLEAN/GENTLY USED WELCOMED
4. Fabrics to make the Blankets welcomed
eChapter’s
Baby Blanket
Goal:
30 Blankets for
every Medical
Mission
1st trips:
May 17 & May
23 2013
40 blankets
needed by May
10- May 17
Baby Blanket Supporters:
Little by Little Haiti
Sue Walsh
(littlebylittlehaiti.org)
Centrua Health/Global Health
Karla Prentiss
Centuraglobalhealth.org
Lifeline Ministries
Cynthia Martin
Lifeline.org
Contact:
Rhonda Susini
[email protected]
or
directly through
eChapter’s
NURSELINK.COM
Some shipping companies may decrease costs if they know
the cause
USPS has “flat rate” shipping
UPS might be able to deliver bulks at a reasonable price
If you have a bulk of blankets and cannot afford to ship,
please contact Rhonda Susini for assistance at
[email protected] or
directly through eChapter’s NURSELINK.COM
Shipping Tips
Haitian Proverb: “Men anpil chay pa lou. Many hands
make the load lighter”