GOOD NEWS from ROTAPLAST

Such good news!  Not only is a Rotaplast team currently treating children in Guatemala, they are prepping for at least 4 more medical missions in 2023!  Doors and opportunities are opening.... and the backlog of children awaiting treatment is being addressed. 

These pictures of 'quilts in action' will make you smile (and keep you quilting!).  Your quilts have brought comfort and joy.... and I'm positive there's a happy new smile hidden behind that mask. 😀

Please go to Rotaplast.org for more of the story from Guatemala.  The mission is ongoing.

This last picture really speaks to me.  Can you imagine turning your child over to a stranger (who probably doesn't speak your language), to be taken behind closed doors for a surgery.  Your prayers are being answered but there's a normal anxiety. Then someone comes out and wraps your child in a beautiful hand-made quilt, before walking down that hall.... and you feel a quiet relief.  

Thank you to all our quilters who bring comfort to the parents as well as the children. 

With gratitude and best holiday wishes to everyone in our Wrap-A-Smile family,

~Ann

Adding a PS here.  After posting this morning I learned that the quilts in the first and third pictures were made by Polly in Maine.  Always a thrill to see these quilts doing exactly what they were meant to do!  Thank you, Polly!