What is Crafts for Community?
Crafts for Community is an organization designed to engage and connect the community. We teach students through senior citizens how to knit hats, which are then donated to babies in the NICU.
These hats will help these babies, as Hats are a must in the NICU, even for very small or very sick preemies. Covering the head helps babies stay warm, and preemie hats are an easy knitting or crocheting project. Alongside each hat will come with a letter to send hope and love to the family as they navigate difficult circumstances.
Co-Founder Bio
Lili
Lili is a Junior in High School residing in the Bay Area. She has always had a passion for teaching and plans to major in elementary education while in college. Lilis mom was a second grade teacher, which inspired Lili to have interest in pursuing a teaching career in her future. Lili loves being around and teaching the youth and building connections with her community. Lili was born with Spina bifida Occulta and being told she’d be immobile by age 11, yet is a committed and high-level competition dancer, thanks to the care and treatment she received at Stanford Children’s hospital.
Crafts for Community is providing Lili with the opportunity to teach the community how to knit hats. It also provides her the opportunity to give back to a community that helped her when she needed it.
Co-Founder Bio
Hailey
Hailey is a Junior in High school passionate about helping those who are sick or in need. In sixth grade Hailey’s middle school teacher taught her how to make hats and encouraged the students to participate in order to give them to NICU babies. A few years later as Hailey’s mom became very sick from MPN blood cancer she taught her mom how to make the hats to help her pass time. Within a week her mom made 40 hats. Both Hailey and her brother were very ill and spent time in the NICU at Sanford Hospital and received baby hats. Her mother also receives weekly treatments and care from Stanford and is able to thrive due to their help.
Crafts for Community allows Hailey to give back to those who have helped herself and her family as well as teach others how they can use their kindness to help the community.