Celebrate Green Blog

by Lynn

As a crafter living in a country where so many have so much, I value opportunities to contribute my work to those who are not as fortunate as I.

Craft Hope is an amazing grass roots organization that asks for help from anyone, but especially from anyone who enjoys crafting.

Their projects always involve at least partially handmade or homemade items to be included and sent to specific charities.

March 1 is the deadline for their current project, putting together very simple maternity kits for Konbit Sante, an organization that has, for nearly ten years, worked to provide the education and resources necessary to improve capacity within the public health system of Cap-Haitien, Haiti’s second largest city.

Here’s the scoop directly from the Craft Hope website:

“For the past three years, Konbit Sante has been spearheading a family planning and maternal health project in the most needy neighborhoods of Cap-Haitien that includes working more closely to support trained birth attendants (TBAs) who attend the vast majority of births in the community. They began supplying them with safe birthing kits to use in their deliveries. TBAs attend the vast majority of births in Haiti and have no formal medical training to speak of. The kits represent a “value added” component to their services, offer a measure of status, and are well received. There is ample evidence internationally that the kits can reduce infant and maternal mortality.”

Instructions and information is on the Craft Hope website. I plan to get crafting for this project and I hope you will too.

Lynn Colwell and Corey Colwell-Lipson are mother and daughter and authors of Celebrate Green! Creating Eco-Savvy Holidays, Celebrations and Traditions for the Whole Family, and founders of Green Halloween®.