Inge Raudzus is sending the toques to Ukraine through the North Okanagan Valley Gleaners
It’s easy to think the world’s biggest issues, such as the war in Ukraine, are far too big for any one person to do anything about. But Inge Raudzus knows better.
Over the course of about a year Raudzus knitted more than 100 toques, and she’s donating all of them to Ukrainian children, to be shipped in January through the North Okanagan Valley Gleaners, which regularly ships food to less fortunate people around the world. Raudzus largely taught herself how to knit. When she was young someone showed her a couple of different stitches and away she went. She has a long history of brightening spirits with her knitting; when her daughter was young, Raudzus knitted an entire wardrobe for her Barbie dolls, as well as a little blanket for a toy bed made out of a cigarette package. She says the doll outfits were much improved from the ones she made for her own doll when she was a child. Practice makes perfect.
“I can just imagine the children that don’t have anything and are cold,” she said. “I’ve been there, I know what it feels like.”
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