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Did you know that knitting has an impact on the operation of police, fire and ambulance crews; helps to save the lives of premature babies and has even helped to protect penguins off the coast of Tasmania?
We are building up to a launch of the Big Knit as part of the Year of the Volunteer 2005 and I wondered if you wanted to take this morning's story on Today a step further.
Thousands of volunteers across the UK are gearing up to boost the supply of knitted 'Trauma Teddies' provided to the emergency services to ease the trauma of children caught up at horrific scenes of major incidents such as road accidents and fires.
The knitters also produce garments to keep premature babies warm in hospitals, and to provide clothing for impoverished communities in Eastern Europe and Africa.
Even more astonishingly, I know of an incidence where a group of knitters made woolly jumpers for the penguins caught up in an oil spill off the cost of Tasmania - the idea being to help prevent them ingest the oil on their feathers.
The 'Big Knit' will start in March during the Older People Month of the Year of the Volunteer; though there are teams of knitters helping to change people's lives as I type.
Jason Tanner
We are building up to a launch of the Big Knit as part of the Year of the Volunteer 2005 and I wondered if you wanted to take this morning's story on Today a step further.
Thousands of volunteers across the UK are gearing up to boost the supply of knitted 'Trauma Teddies' provided to the emergency services to ease the trauma of children caught up at horrific scenes of major incidents such as road accidents and fires.
The knitters also produce garments to keep premature babies warm in hospitals, and to provide clothing for impoverished communities in Eastern Europe and Africa.
Even more astonishingly, I know of an incidence where a group of knitters made woolly jumpers for the penguins caught up in an oil spill off the cost of Tasmania - the idea being to help prevent them ingest the oil on their feathers.
The 'Big Knit' will start in March during the Older People Month of the Year of the Volunteer; though there are teams of knitters helping to change people's lives as I type.
Jason Tanner
