Warm Up America: Tiny Hats for Tiny Babies
University of California San Francisco’s East Africa Preterm Birth Initiative and the Warm Up America! Foundation are partnering on the Tiny Hats for Tiny Babies campaign to deliver knitted and crocheted preemie hats to newborn health facilities in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the initiative is a partnership of the UCSF; Makerere University in Uganda; Kenya Medical Research Institute; the University of Rwanda; and Rwanda Biomedical Center.
For more details about this program, visit: pretermbirth.ucsf.edu
HOW YOU CAN HELP
World Prematurity Day, November 17, 2017, is a global conference which will be held in San Francisco and attended by the East African health ministers. All hats need to be delivered to the WUA! office in time for World Prematurity Day.