Teddies just like these are being handed to children all over the world in situations such as: war, natural dissasters, accidents, refugee camps, orphanages, and anywhere a child needs cheering up.

These teddies can become long term favourites with children and offer unconditional love, which some children have never experianced before.

After being involved in a road accident, teddies have been used by emergency services to distract children from what is happening around them.

It has been proved that something this simple can reduce the mental trauma and minimise the long term effects for children caught up in many types of accident and tradgedy.

Where do teddies go? At home, they have been used by the emergency services as instant comfort/distraction for small children caught up in accidents. Overseas, just look at the picture of the little Rwandan girl and add millions of similar faces.

This little girl lives in Rwanda. She was given her teddy by ambassadors from the Send a Cow Charity. A cow might be more important for her future but she is much more interested in her teddy.

We also need knitted clowns as these seem to bring even bigger smiles to otherwise sad faces.

Unfortunately, the patterns cannot be offered free but are available from Knitwell for only £3.50

Teddies Sans Frontieres is not a registered charity, it has no central organisation, no rules, regulations, or subscription fees. It is just a knitting and crochet pattern and now a website. Internet myth says the project was started by the W.R.V.S. (Does anyone know the true story?) and that the first teddies went to Sudan in 1985