THE SHARE A SQUARE PROJECT

This website is a chronicle of a year long journey to share the warmth of love with some kids who battle cancer.

It started on June 14th, 2007, with a crazy idea that seemed as simple as 1,2,3:
  1. Get donations of crocheted squares from volunteers all over the world.

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  2. Put them together into 140 colorful afghans (48 squares on each afghan, each square from a different person).

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  3. Give those afghans to children with cancer at a summer camp called Camp Sanguinity, associated with Cooks Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, TX, on July 7th, 2008.

    4. Along the way, more than 400 volunteers were involved in the project. Where were they from? All over the United States, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Spain, 4 provinces of Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, The Czech Republic, Mexico, South Africa…and more.

    Who were those volunteers?
     People with a lot of love to share. Most of the people who contributed worked at “real” jobs, and crocheted for the project in their spare time. There were old and young. Women and men. People of many different religious faiths. Some had a loved one who been touched by cancer in their lives. Some had cancer themselves. Others, though stricken with multiple sclerosis, blindness, or painful arthritis contributed tremendous amounts of work.

    All of them contributed just so we could wrap these children in blankets filled with love.

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