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Kristen Williams, with her sons, crochets a cap for a newborn baby. |
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Green Bay to Guatemala, Knit Caps Save Lives
Winter nights are a lot colder in Green Bay, Wisconsin than they are in Guatemala, but Kristen Williams knows that babies in Guatemala need knitted wool caps too. Her two sons were born there.
“People think it’s hot all the time in regions like that near the equator, but the altitude of some places is quite high and it gets chilly, especially at night,” she said.
With bins of yarn leftovers that fill a closet, this self-described “yarnoholic” crochets slippers as well as gifts for others during Green Bay’s long winter evenings.
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Kristen tells the cap recipient – "I hope this keeps you warm and healthy!"
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“It’s a warm thing to do with your hands and it’s very comforting,” she said. “It’s almost like a meditation — very therapeutic.”
Kristen and her husband journeyed to Central America more than a decade ago to pick up their adopted Guatemalan baby boys. “We were told half the children wouldn’t live to be 14 because of tuberculosis and other disease. The huge fear of parents there is that their children will get sick and die, because there is so little medical care,” she said.
Her sons made the transition very well — they are now 16 and 17 and very active in Green Bay’s winter sports.
Kristen learned about Save the Children’s Caps to the Capital project from the www.Crochetville.org website. “I did three caps, different colors, different patterns, with different bottoms,” she said.
“I hope these caps make a little bit of difference,” she said. “I can’t change the world, but I can’t not do anything about it either. If my three little caps warm up three little individual lives and keep them going, that’s the least I can do.”
Learn more about the Caps to the Capital project.
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