(13 Dec 2024)
VENEZUELA TOY HOSPITAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 21 November 2024
1. Toy hospital volunteer painting teddy bear’s eye
2. Various of Maria Poleo, 82, taking out electronics from stuffed animal
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Poleo, toy hospital volunteer:
“It’s an activity that takes time but it’s really light because these things are part of one’s own routine. We have all been seamstresses at one time or another, we have all been menders”
4. Various of Poleo repairing stuffed animal
5. Close of hospital website addresses on Poleo’s shirt reading: (Spanish) ‘Toy hospital’
6. Various of Silvia Heibert, 72, working on toys
7. Close of card attached to all the mended toys reading: Hi! I’m your new friend. I am an experienced doll for I have played with another girl before. Love me and take care of me because I will do the same for you. When you grow up, gift me to another girl that loves me and plays with me just like you do”
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Silvia Heibert, toy hospital volunteer:
“There are many children that have never received a toy or a stuffed animal, and a stuffed animal is always a kindness that a child receives. And they are all pretty. And it’s not about it being used because they leave here just like new and when we deliver them to children the mission that is written here gets fulfilled: “I’m your new friend. I am an experienced doll for I have been played with by another child before. Love me and take care of me because I will do the same for you.” When that kid doesn’t want to play with it any more, it will be delivered, fresh and clean, to another kid because its mission is fulfilled.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 5 December 2024
9. Volunteer fixing doll
10. Wide of pile of toys which have been mended
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Martha Velasco, volunteer:
“This is like a cycle, the delivery, what we do and the people who carry them, the transportation of them, the people who are going to come to deliver them, it makes us all happy. The whole cycle, even seeing the child’s face of joy when they receive the stuffed animal.”
12. Volunteer preparing toys to be washed
13. Hospital worker washing doll
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela – 21 November 2024
14. Various of toy hospital worker taking stuffed animals from dryer
15. View of toys inside the dryer
STORYLINE:
LEADIN:
They might not have achieved the worldwide fame of the elves in Santa’s workshop, but a group of retired seamstresses in Caracas are bringing just as much joy to the children of Venezuela.
The women volunteer at a toy hospital which gives each damaged stuffed animal or doll a new lease of life as a child’s precious toy.
STORYLINE:
Welcome to the ‘Toy Hospital’.
A group of volunteer sewers in Caracas are working to repair toys to bring Christmas cheer to many poor and vulnerable young children.
There are many abandoned toys in homes in Venezuela where 7.7 million people have left their country in search of better living conditions since 2014, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
For the relatives left behind the clothes and toys remind them of their loved ones, and they want to put them to good use, bringing pleasure to other children.
The stuffed animal hospital was created in 2017, dedicated to collecting, restoring and giving away stuffed animals, toys and educational games.
The idea was so well received, more people contributed and the project expanded into the Hospital de los Peluches (The Toy Hospital).
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