Anyone who has seen Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List” remembers the little girl in the red coat.
31.03.2022 - 16:13 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Hundreds of knitters have been crafting trauma teddies in the colours of the Ukrainian flag to welcome children arriving in Scotland after fleeing Russian bombs.
The bears have been stitched by people from all over Scotland after retired primary school teacher and grandmother, Eilidh Dow, decided to start knitting bears for children from Ukraine.
Eilidh, from Dollar in Clackmannanshire, had spent the preceding winter making "trauma teddies" to send to youngsters experiencing distressing events around the world.
The Facebook group, Teddies for Ukraine, was set up and the knitting pattern for the teddies was posted online.
The page has drawn 670 followers in just over a week and people around Scotland have been knitting the colourful bears.
Dozens of children from Ukrainian orphanages were given one of the bears as a welcome when they arrived in Scotland last week, and in future they will be distributed through the Ukrainian Club in Edinburgh.
Eilidh said: "These children have had their lives turned inside out; so many traumas rolled into one almighty nightmare.
"We hope this sends a message to Ukraine and its people just how much people in Scotland are thinking about them, how much we care and how much we all want to do what we can to help.
"Scots are famous the world over for our warm welcome and hospitality; we all want to make a difference right now and we are just so moved by the number of people who have got behind the project and are now knitting those little bears which are being given to the children when they arrive after a long, exhausting and harrowing journey to our home in Scotland.
"The interest we've had has been overwhelming."
Keen to find a distributor for the bears, Mrs Dow's daughter, Mhairi Clarke,
Anyone who has seen Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List” remembers the little girl in the red coat.
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