 Home | Recent News | Dodge City | Project of Love 01 May 2007 20-Year ‘Project of Love’ continues at ManorMay 1, 2007  |  | Vera Hamm is finishing a small yellow baby cap and 17 finished caps are on the footstool. She has crocheted and estimated 3,120 baby caps the past 20 years for newborns at the Western Plains Regional Hospital. | |
If you could picture in your mind the number 3,120 you might see this stretching out for about three-quarters of a mile. Now picture in your mind 3,120 little soft crotched baby caps and you would see how many little babies wore small caps home from the hospital -- thanks to Vera Hamm.
A new apartment resident at Presbyterian Manor of the Plains, Ms. Hamm has accomplished this major project of love over the past 20 years. And for 20 years, she has crotched 12 to 18 caps per month. She delivered 18 little caps just last month to Western Plains Regional Hospital.
When asked how many she had made and how long it had taken her she replied, “I can’t think that far back, but I used to be able to make one in 31/2 hours. Now it takes me a little longer.”
Vera started as a ‘Pink Lady’ at the hospital and just sort of fell into the baby cap making business by accident. She arrives at the hospital every Tuesday morning bright and early to water patient’s plants, flowers and to just visit and recently received a pin for donating over 10,000 hours as a volunteer.
She delivers the caps to the hospital and they are sterilized and then each new baby receives one when they first arrive. “I love making them and it is very relaxing for me,” Hamm remarked.
“Even though I’m not quite unpacked it’s nice to be with a group of people…I have started joining the coffee group in the morning. I was getting pretty tired of having coffee alone every day and I kept praying that a one-bedroom apartment would open up pretty soon. Then I received a call saying one was available and I was pretty excited.”
“Even though I’m not quite unpacked it’s nice to be with a group of people…I have started joining the coffee group in the morning. I was getting pretty tired of having coffee alone every day and I kept praying that a one-bedroom apartment would open up pretty soon. Then I received a call saying one was available and I was pretty excited.”
April is National Volunteer Month. We salute all the volunteers within our Presbyterian Manors who are helping throughout their communities and those who are giving of themselves within our Manors.
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