Created in 2004 at Ft. Bragg/Pope Air Force Base
in Fayetteville, N.C., ASYMCA’s Operation Kid
Comfort is designed to address the emotional
stress that children of military personnel
suffer during a parent’s absence from home.
Operation Kid Comfort provide free quilts for
children six and under and pillows for children
age seven and up.
The Program
ASYMCA volunteers collect photographs from military families to make
“photo-transfer” quilts that feature images of the deployed family member. With
the help of local quilting artists, volunteers are taught the basic steps of
quilt making, how to crop and scan pictures, preparation of the fabric, and use
of equipment. Photographs of the deployed parent are scanned into a computer,
printed, and placed onto the fabric. The quilt is then given to the child to
play with, sleep with, or use to comfort them from the grief of missing their
deployed parent.
Contact Nutmeg Lodge or Susan Simms to receive a kit to start your quilt/quilts.
A kit may contain one or more quilt requests depending on the number of
children in the family
and include:
Feel free to design and sign your quilt any way you wish.
Pillow top should be constructed with a back opening for easy removal for
washing.
It is suggested that you use a Flat Rate Postal box which should fit quilts or
pillows.
Call Nutmeg Lodge
(304) 262-6633,
or
Contact Susan Simms for kits
1-800-597-1260 ext 14
ssimms@asymca.org
