Knitting for kindness: Trauma Teddies

Over 1 million children have cuddled a colourful, comforting Trauma Teddy since we first started hand-knitting them back in 1990. Providing care in so many ways:

• comfort to children fleeing the Summer Bushfires
• a warm welcome to refugee children
• company in a speeding ambulance
• friendly security in hospital
• a happy face in a lonely time

Knitting kindness

At last count, more than 600 volunteer knitters in 75 knitting groups hand knit Teddies in Australia. They lovingly craft around 50, 000 Trauma Teddies a year. That’s a huge number of children who each year receive the care of a teddy bear.

Every Trauma Teddy is lovingly put together. They must also pass a quality control test to guarantee comfort and safety.

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