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When difficult times strike, sometimes all you want is something to hold.
In this case, it's been as comforting as simple knitted dolls, courtesy of a community of caring Inland Valley individuals.
It began with a request for Duduza dolls, Haitian comfort dolls, that could be sent to St. Andre's school in Trianon after a devastating earthquake shook the impoverished island country to its core leaving broken buildings and lives.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church and its preschool and school have been longtime partners with their Haitian counterpart so helping out came naturally. Past work has involved the building of a water system, four new classrooms, school tables and chairs, donations for teacher salaries and vegetable seed packets so the people can grow their own food. But now it has turned into a project touching people of all ages and faiths.
The dolls have been knitted by students, teachers and church members from St. Mark's as well as from Upland Presbyterian Church, Genesis Community Church, The Yarn Boutique in Big Bear City and customers from Needles and Niceties in Upland who learned about the project from owners Bob and Anna Vasaturo.
"It helps people in need," said Bob Vasaturo.
"And that's true wherever they are. We just put the pattern out for any of our customers that might be interested and now we're collecting the dolls that they've made from leftover yarn. We found out about this about a month ago.
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