A donation of over 200 knitted products made its way to Beanies 4 Babies thanks to a kindness knitathon supported by medical professionals and patients in Johannesburg.
Randburg, South Africa (14 January 2025) — While most of us started off 2025 feeling overwhelmed by the summer’s heat, many little tots born prematurely or at low birth weights faced the complete opposite. Beanies 4 Babies, a non-profit charity project that helps little lives prevent hypothermia and other low-weight-related challenges with warm, loving knits, is imperative to the babies who started off their lives on the cold foot. And this holiday season, the organisation got a big influx of support thanks to a kindness knitathon!
As Beanies 4 Babies shared with immense gratitude, the knitathon organised by a local chiropractor’s office in Johannesburg helped support their efforts with hundreds of knitted goodies.
This was the work of many patients and medical staff who all joined forces to support a better start to life for many extra-little South Africans.
The effort saw an impressive figure of 200 knitted products donated to Beanies 4 Babies, which in turn is gifted to babies in need as soon after their births as possible!
If any of your resolutions for 2025 involve knitting, Beanies 4 Babies offers a wonderful opportunity for you to pay your craft forward and perhaps even host a knitathon of your own.
About Beanies 4 Babies
Beanies 4 Babies has been hard at work since 2018. Founded by then-healthcare students Johané Palko and Calrette Alfond, the two were inspired to offer a bridge of support after many rotations through the neonatal ICU at a hospital in Bloemfontein put the plight of the smallest babies into the spotlight.
What began as a few knits from volunteers has grown into the organisation widely respected today that helps around 1,000 babies every month across South Africa.
You can find out more about B4B, here.
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