A Better World,With Love
 
One Dolly At A Time...  


A Special Response to The Tragedy

In the wake of a tragedy such as the earthquake which has devastated Haiti, simple comforts can be hard to find. Surrounded by the loss of life as recovery efforts continue, even the strongest of Haitian survivors must feel weakened by all that they have experienced.

In the face of such destruction, it can be easy to overlook those who must be the most overwhelmed by the events of January 12th the children of Haiti. It is because of this that Sarah Hanson and her Dolly Donations program has teamed with the Abundant Ground Foundation in an attempt to bring some stability and comfort to the children of Haiti.

Abundant Ground is helping to provide food and shelter for 181 orphans in Haiti, and Dolly Donations is attempting to create a special handmade doll for each of them. Even in the wake of monumental disaster a doll can symbolize to a child the beauty in the world around them, giving them a symbol of love that will shine even in the darkest of nights.

An Amazing Donation

Hanson was first inspired to begin the Dolly Donations program by her daughter, wanting to find a way to help the young girl to see the world in a positive light. She even goes so far as to refer to her daughter as her "top quality control manager", letting her play with and interact with new dolls to make sure that they can survive the attentions of a young child. Knowing the comfort that her daughter finds with dolls, Hanson wants to try and share that comfort with the children in Haiti who need it most ..                                                

Dolls Are The Hope & Comfort

Dolls have long been established as symbols of how children view themselves, having even been used by Doctors Kenneth and Mamie Clark in "Brown vs. the Board of Education". There the dolls were used to show the harmful associations in children who attended segregated schools, here, the dolls will represent our love, empathy and comfort to them.

Dolly Donations is currently attempting to create 103 girl dolls and 78 boy dolls for the Abundant Ground Foundation so that they can be distributed to the children in the Haitian orphanage that Abundant Ground is sponsoring.

The children who will receive the dolls are all between ages 5 and 12 and are in desperate need of love and comfort in what is the most confusing and heartbreaking period of their young lives. Abundant Ground has promised to distribute any dolls that are made in excess of the 181 that Dolly Donations is trying to produce as well, sharing the love that is put into the creation of the dolls with as many children as they can.

Doll Donation Deadline

A deadline has been set for the creation of the dolls, however in order to distribute them within a reasonable timeframe, Abundant Ground needs to ship the dolls by March 31, 2010. 

Each of the Dolly Donations dolls is handmade with care, and even though there is a template which Hanson created to speed up the process of making the dolls the process still takes time. 

The work that is being put into the creation of the dolls only serves to strengthen the resolve of Dolly Donations to meet their deadline, however; the creation of 181 dolls for these children is an act of love and compassion, and this love serves as the driving force that keeps the doll-makers going and the doll count rising