Help shower babies with love and hope
Robin Hood is appealing to all mums in the community to help spread the love this February to new mums and newborns.
IN 2005, shortly after the birth of her second daughter, local businesswoman Cindy Norcott began to wonder how many less fortunate babies could benefit from the clothes her little one had already grown out of. This thought led to the launch of The Robin Hood Foundation’s Love the Babies project.
Cindy, founder and Chairlady of The Robin Hood Foundation, said: “Of the 1.1 million babies born every year in South Africa, 300 000 are born to HIV positive mothers.”
“Our ‘Love the Babies’ bag is essentially a ‘baby shower in a bag’, supplying bags of pre-loved baby clothes, toiletries and other essential baby goods to needy mums with newborn babies from poor, AIDS affected communities, at the government hospitals we visit every six to eight weeks.”
She said these projects really do pull on the heartstrings of the volunteers who join the team on the visits, as these babies have very little, some have absolutely nothing, and most times they arrive, the babies are lying wrapped in a hospital blanket in only a nappy.
“You cannot even imagine the incredible joy of the new mums as they unpack their ‘Love the Babies’ bags and quickly dress their little ones in the donated clothes and swaddle them in the blankets!” said Cindy.
Robin Hood is appealing to all mums in the community to help spread the love this February to these new mums and newborns. She is appealing for donations of pre-loved baby clothes, beanies, booties (sizes newborn to 12 months), blankets, towelling nappies, unused disposable nappies, unused toiletries and any knitted baby items.
“We are particularly in desperate need of baby boys’ clothing for our March visit, and as we host these projects all year long, we would be so grateful for any community donations as, and when, your babies are growing out of their clothes. What a blessing to know that your little one’s outfits are getting a second life, clothing a newborn who otherwise would’ve had nothing,” said Kim Griffith Jones, the co-ordinator of the Foundation,
Contact The Robin Hood Foundation on robinhoodfund@telkomsa.net.
