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Braden River Presbyterian Lady Crafters

Our ladies craft group recently joined hundreds of other women around the country for their 2010 mission project, HAP, handmade afghan project. Our objective is to thank those wounded in service to our country, and bring comfort and warmth to those men and women who are protecting us every day.   

We create handmade afghans and send them to military hospitals. Volunteers of all ages in all 50 states and D.C. knit or crochet 6x9 rectangles. The completed rectangles are collected, sorted by color and assembled into afghans. 

They are then delivered to a HAP coordinator, who washed them and places them in a clear plastic bag which is tied with a red/white/blue ribbon. 

Volunteers take about a dozen afghans at a time to Walter Reed Army Medical Center or other medical facilities where the red cross and hospital chaplains deliver them to active duty service members. 

Regular deliveries are now being sent to Bagram Airfield combat support hospital in Afghanistan Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany,  Ft. Bragg AMC,  Brooke AMC, and Andrews AFB Medical Center.  Over 3,200 afghans have been delivered to date.