Frank Andersen, a division chief of Women and Children’s Services at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, TX, makes annual trips to Cunen, a city in Guatemala.
There he, and those volunteers that go with him, provide medical care to the people living in and around the city.
Homemade Cloth Diapers
After showing a slide show detailing the trip’s mission and work to his colleagues, patient representative, Beverly Carter noticed the babies and young children were wearing bright, patterned cloth diapers. When she asked Andersen explained they were homemade cloth diapers that helped to prevent illness and decrease the infant mortality rate. “Disposable diapers were too impractical because they could only be used once.”
From there Carter shared her idea for her “Diapers for Babies” project with fellow church ward members in Everett, talking to a friend who helped her spread the word in their church.
Cloth Diaper Requirements
The diapers had certain requirements. According to Carter, they couldn’t use pins or snaps and had to be one size diapers (diapers that would adjust to “grow” with the babies through the Toddler potty training years).
According to Amy Daybert of the Herald Writer fifty volunteers, including Cub Scout Troop 412, worked to sew flannel cloth diapers to meet these requirements. Daybert writes, “They cut out material, sewed wash cloths and other absorbent material inside the diapers and sewed on ties on either side to make them adjustable.” A total of 360 cloth diapers were made, with each diaper taking about an hour to sew.
The cloth diapers sewn by Carter and others are added to the health kits and supplies that travel along with Andersen and his volunteers to Guatemala.
For more information regarding sewing cloth diapers for babies in Guatemala, please email Beverly Carter at sixwilldo@aol.com.
Photo Source: Bates, Dan. “Cloth diapers for healthier babies.” Photo. HeraldNet.com 15 July 2010.
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