As the last shipments of 2015 begin their journey to children in remote corners of the world, it’s a good time to reflect on what our Wool-Aid community has given to children this year.

Wool-Aid shipments in 2015 contained 7167 items:

722 sweaters

466 vests

1330 pairs of socks

3814 hats

722 pairs of mittens

113 blankets

Wool-Aid has sent these thousands of items around the world to help keep children warm in these places:

Alaska — 225 items

India — 232 items

Jordan and Lebanon — 774 items

Kazakhstan — 96 items

Mongolia — 2912 items

Nepal — 1236 items

Syria — 1692 items

Thank you for being a part of this!

Many of you have donated warm, wool handknit/crocheted items, and you and your family and friends have supported our shipping fund with financial contributions. Every contribution is appreciated, and every contribution makes a difference to a cold child somewhere in the world.

For the sake of the children, please consider making a tax-deductible year-end gift to support this important work. Your donation will help Wool-Aid provide the gift of warmth to children living in extremely cold environments who have the least access to resources.

Let us join together to conclude 2015 with a message of hope and ensure that 2016 continues to bring warmth to the children that Wool-Aid serves.

Thank you for your support, and Happy New Year!

Wool-Aid, Inc. has joined #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals, communities, and organizations to encourage philanthropy and to celebrate generosity worldwide.

Occurring this year on December 1, #GivingTuesday is held annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) to kick off the holiday giving season and inspire people to collaborate in giving back in impactful ways to the charities and causes they support.

Since 2010, Wool-Aid has been helping children with limited access to resources who live in extremely cold places — Mongolia, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tibet, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, India, Nepal, northern Canada, and remote areas of Alaska. We provide them with lovingly handknit and crocheted hats, socks, sweaters, vests, mittens, and blankets to keep them warm. All of our recipients live in locations that are not easily accessible, and therefore shipping is costly. Your generous donations make it possible to send warm, woolen clothing and blankets to the children we serve.

We invite you to celebrate generosity on Tuesday, December 1, and contribute to Wool-Aid. Your contribution will help provide children living in desperately cold environments with warm, woolen clothing and blankets to keep them warm.

Wool-Aid, Inc. is registered as a non-profit corporation in the State of Illinois and is recognized as a tax-exempt charitable organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code (EIN: 46-5580013). All gifts to Wool-Aid are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Wool-Aid, Inc., as a 501(c)(3) organization, is registered with the Amazon Smile program.

In our first quarter (plus a few days) of participation, Wool-Aid supporters who have shopped through Wool-Aid’s Amazon Smile portal have helped to contribute more than $50 toward Wool-Aid’s shipping expenses. That means that more than $10,000 in Amazon purchases have been linked to Wool-Aid in just our first 100 or so days in the program–and at no extra cost to you!

If you shop at Amazon, please link your Amazon account to Wool-Aid as the Amazon Smile program that you support, and shop through the URL smile.Amazon.com. Wool-Aid will then receive .5% of the amount of your eligible purchases as a contribution. And, as you can see, it adds up!

Some of the busiest shopping days of the year are coming up, so please make sure to support Wool-Aid as you shop on Black Friday and Cyber Monday!