The gift of warmth for infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) became a reality thanks to students from Kermit McKenzie Jr. High School in Guadalupe.
The sixth-through eighth-grade students delivered 52 knitted hats to Marian Medical Center recently. They started making them inside Rosie Garcia’s knitting elective class about eight weeks ago.
Garcia’s purpose was not only to show her students a new and useful skill, but it was also about teaching the young people how they could take that skill and impact the community in a positive way.
“As time goes on, I would like to expand the class project to include adult hats that can be donated to cancer patients,” she said in a statement. “I would like to be able to share the love of sewing and quilting and have a group of students learn how to make lap quilts that can be donated to the Marian Medical Center NICU as well.”
To donate materials or gift cards to local craft stores to help keep this project going, contact Garcia at 343-1951.
This article appears in Dec 15-22, 2016.