Wee Help
Providing layettes to newborns
Wee Help committee assembles layettes.
Each year Wee Help purchases, assembles, and delivers layette packages to hospitals in the Atlanta area for mothers in need. Each layette contains a gown, sleeper, diapers, blanket, bottle, pacifiers, socks, and a hand-knitted cap. Also included is a pamphlet in three languages with information about SIDS.
Bereavement layette packages are also provided. In these layettes the clothing is all white. Bereavement layettes also contain a camera, sympathy card, and white teddy bear for the family.
In the beginning, Wee Help members cut out gowns from a homemade pattern and then sewed the specially-ordered fabric into gowns for newborns. Today, members order all new items and then gather to assemble and package the layettes.
In 2008-2009, Assistance League of Atlanta delivered more than 2.000 layettes to area hospitals.
Wee Help committee sorting goods.
Hand-knitted newborn baby caps.
Wee Help layette.
Testimonials
"...your donations will help mothers who lack baby supplies due to...homelessness, domestic abuse, joblessness, low or no income with little or no support from their family or friends. You have brought sunshine into the lives of new moms and new babies. Grady First Steps program appreciates you and your gift." Sonya C, M.S.W., Supervisor;
C. Turner, LCSW, Director, Social Services
Assistance League of Atlanta is a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization and donations are tax deductible. DONATE NOW
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