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Save the Children's Knit Kit

Dear Prime Minister Gordon Brown, I've knitted a hat to help save a newborn baby's life because ...


    ... It’s the first step towards helping these innocent babies. YOU Mr Brown can do a lot more. Please help them.

    Maggie from Suffolk

    ... these children need such obvious care because they have been forgotten! Politicians never go cold…should babies?

    Janice from Cardiff

    ... I want to help save the lives of millions of needy children. I understand the government can’t help as you need all our tax money to pay for MPs’ second homes and free meals and taxis.

    Jean from Cumbria

    ... I care about those less fortunate than myself. We are wealthy compared to these innocent babies.

    Wendy from Houghton Regis

    ... I believe that we who inhabit our precious planet, this includes world governments and individuals alike, must do everything possible to alleviate the suffering of the innocents worldwide.

    Margaret from Yorkshire

    ... This hat I have knitted cost a few pence — a child’s life to me is worth more than that. Writing from a grandma and mother of two.

    Mrs Livingstone from Hampshire

    ... every child born deserves the best start in life. If we do not care for all children we have no future.

    Irene from London

    ... I feel too many children all over the world don’t get a chance to live their lives into old age. And all because they need the basics that we all take for granted.

    Edna from Argyll

    ... I know what it’s like to lose a baby. They deserve to be given a chance of life. I hope you can also do things to help.

    Gill from Walsall

    Words are cheap. Every child has a right to the best care possible. If knitting a hat helps to save some babies lives by this small token, politicians should do more.

    Sandra from Middlesbrough

    Life is precious, and if a small thing like a hat can help save a baby, what more can I say?

    Ann from Bedford

    ... It’s heart-breaking to know 10 million babies die every year just because of hypothermia. Please help to find a solution.

    Angela from West Sussex

    ... I want to help save the life of a poor child. Every child deserves a good life. Please help save the children.

    Carol from Lichfield

    ... If we, with so much, don’t do anything to help these poor babies then who will? Its time to put our money where our mouths are and give them our support.

    Anon

    ... It is the least I can do. You are in a position to do much more. Please do it!! These people need your help now!!

    Gail from Norfolk

    ... I am from a working class family who struggled to bring my children up. My children lived a wealthy life compared to the poor mites in the developing world.

    Mary from Essex

    ... Lots of us know the heartache of losing a baby, but we have marvellous medical teams helping us. What have these poor babies got?

    Marilyn from Bristol

    ... Too much money is spent on war and not enough on saving the lives of children.

    Dinah from South Yorkshire

    ... Too many children die from preventable causes ...

    Mrs Smith from Staffordshire

    ... Everyone deserves the same fighting chance to survive regardless of where they are born.

    Yvonne from County Durham

    ... these babies deserve a chance for life. They need vaccinations and clean water.

    Ann from Aberdeen

    ... They need as much help as possible to survive in their early days of life, and if this hat saves one baby it was all worthwhile.

    Mrs J. Smith from Northumberland

    ... I would like to save children dying needlessly when they can be saved by something simple ...

    Samantha, age 15 from London

    ... I care about children in distress. Please influence the governments of their countries to give priority to basic care of their citizens.

    Mrs Dolman from Derbyshire

    ... my daughter had pneumonia when she was two days old but thanks to the medical care she has access to she survived. Children in some countries do not and if a woolly hat could save one child from death then I have done something important.

    Melody from Dunfermline

    ... We all should think more of other lives and not just what we can gain, from others. Put something back into life, will you?

    Mrs Nolan from Cheshire

    ... we have just had two new grandsons making this a total of four grandsons. I have knitted these hats to help some of the children who are less fortunate than our grandsons.

    Rosemary from East Sussex

    ... although I have hardly any money, I am glad to be given a chance to help in a small way. If I can only afford to buy some wool, maybe you can encourage richer people to help more with medicines and education.

    Allison from Aberdeen

    ... western democracies have a responsibility to the rest of the world.

    Anon

    ... Paul O’Grady’s show on television really brought it home to me how bad the conditions in Africa really are. It’s so good to be able to help like you have really helped someone.

    Margaret from Lincoln