"Hmmm, maybe I want THAT doll..."

I just had to publish this photo, which I received this morning from my friend, Carol Mitchell. Carol and her husband are currently in South Africa for two weeks on business, and Carol had graciously volunteered to do a "doll drop" while in Cape Town. The dolls were to go to disadvantaged children in Khayelitsha, a township outside of Cape Town, as part of the mission of the not-for-profit "Art Aids Art" to get ethnically sensitive dolls into the hands of these poor children. The dolls came from a variety of individuals--many of them were made by our team members at St. Anthony's Hospital. Many more came from doll making groups affiliated with "Dollies without Borders" in Gainesville, Florida, and several, including two of the dolls in the adorable picture, were made by my sister-in-law, Mary Mulrooney, and friends up in St. John's, Newfoundland. (Scroll down to my August 18th post and you'll recognize the dolls in their little box, ready to go to South Africa!) As you can see, one little girl looks thrilled with her doll, while her little friend may well be reconsidering her initial choice of dollie. It was a nice surprise to get this photo because we weren't expecting that the dolls would be given out to the children while Carol was in Cape Town; we thought she was just dropping them off to be distributed through Art Aids Art at a later date. I will post more about the Cape Town doll drop after Carol gets back to the States and I get a chance to sit down, hear her stories and see more of her photos.