Warm the World provides baby afghans and quilts to A Caring Pregnancy Center on an annual basis. Added to our growing list of organizations we support in 2006, A Caring pregnancy Center is a locally organized and funded outreach, providing a variety of free services and programs to meet the needs of the community. To find out more about this organization, click on the web link below.

Caring Pregnancy Center
500 Colorado Ave.
Pueblo, CO 81004

www.acpcpueblo.org

Warm the World has been providing afghans and quilts to the Cañon City Pregnancy Center (CCPC) since 2004. Our goal is to insure every new parent that needs assistance through CCPC will also receive a wonderful handmade afghan or quilt for his or her new bundle of joy. CCPC provides crisis pregnancy services for the pregnant individual, the child, the father, and others involved.

For additional information see their website at the address listed below.

508 Greenwood
Cañon City, Colorado 81212

www.canoncitypregnancycenter.com

In our continued growth, we are fortunate that our supply of adult afghans has increased to allow us to open our resources to Sangre de Cristo Hospice. Since 1985, families in our community have turned to Sangre de Cristo Hospice & Palliative Care when facing perhaps one of the most difficult times in their lives. For over 20 years, they have responded to the needs of our community with the utmost compassion and competence. Warm the World is honored that we can play even the smallest role by providing a terminally ill patient with a handmade afghan.

1716 N. Reading Avenue
Pueblo, CO 81001
www.pueblohospice.org

Warm the World, although not a religious based organization, is honored to be adding Catholic Charities Diocese of Pueblo, to our list of organizations we support on an annual basis. We provide adult and baby afghans/quilts for the work they do offering comfort to men, women and children they serve.

Founded in 1944 the mission of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pueblo is:

To enhance the dignity and self worth of individuals and families through the provision of services that respond to the physical, spiritual, emotional and economic needs of those served.

To collaborate with the communities of southern Colorado to solve social problems.
To work to bring about systemic change so that justice is attained.

Click on the link below to learn more about the many programs of Catholic Charities'.

429 West 10th Street, Suite 101
Pueblo, CO 81003

www.pueblocharities.org

Warm the World became involved with Extreme Response in 2005, during the relocation of so many evacuees from hurricane Katrina. It was through our combined efforts for Katrina relief that we again teamed with Extreme Response to send our blankets to Africa.

Extreme Response was founded in 2001 as a nonprofit, global organization dedicated to providing relief and support to people living in extreme, often life-threatening conditions. With a passion for the world's poor, Extreme Response programs target those at greatest risk. Warm the World's role is small, but we hope as our resources continue to grow, our support of their many programs will also continue to grow. To learn more about the many facets of this organization, click on the link to their website. For pictures of our blankets received by families in Africa, go the "Faces and Places" on our website.

www.extremeresponse.org

U.S. Office:
P.O. Box 345
Snellville, GA 30078-0345

Teaming with Fremont County Adult Services Department of Human Services, Warm the World provides a handmade afghan to each recipient of the holiday box. The "box" program is an annual event supported by donations from the community to provide much needed items for each at risk adult being served by DHS.

The holidays can be very stressful for many and the holiday outreach box program helps to show at risk adults individuals that they are not alone in their struggles. For a better understanding of what this department manages, click on the link below.

Department of Human Services
Steve Clifton, Director
172 Justice Center Rd.
Cañon City, CO 81212

www.fremontco.com/DHS/adultservices

LOAVES AND FISHES MINISTRIES

As the types yarn donations increased, our decision to add scarves and hats for children came easily. The types of funky and interesting yarn donated makes creating hats and scarves a much-needed break from making afghans! It allows us to experiment with textures and truly create one of kind items for the children of Fremont County.

WtW supports Loaves and Fishes annual Toy House (a Christmas tradition with community wide involvement) by supplying hundreds of hats, scarves and hat/scarf sets for the many children (up to age 18 years) registered to receive assistance from Loaves and Fishes.

Loaves and Fishes was founded in 1983 when a local family began distributing food to those in need from the back porch of a local church. The need increased and the distribution point transferred to a larger building two years later. The ministry expanded to include a clothing house and provided temporary shelter and hot meals to the homeless. Fourteen years later Loaves & Fishes Ministries rented a warehouse space for the distribution center and leased hotel rooms for the homeless, all the while building the present multi-purpose building housing the offices, warehouse, and homeless shelter.

To learn more about this wonderful organization, click on the link below.

241 Justice Center Rd.
Canon City, CO 81212
www.lfministries.org

Our newest addition, Countryside Retirement Home, located in Sioux City, Iowa, receives adult lap afghans, twin size quilts and afghans and they will be our testing group for a highly requested shoulder wrap for the elderly.

We are lucky that one of our local volunteers travels to Iowa and delivers our items. Countryside Retirement Home was established in 1965 as a ministry of a neighboring church. In 1980, the name Countryside Retirement Home was adopted and it is no longer closely associated with the church. The home was originally licensed as an 85 bed nursing facility. In 1973, a 76 bed addition was added. Independent apartments were added in 1983, 1985, and 1990 for a total of 62 units. Countryside is currently licensed for 135 nursing facility beds, 25 residential beds, and 62 individual apartments. The average tenure of the 9 administrative staff members is 16.5 years, and the Home employs 120 people in the

6120 Morningside Ave.
Sioux City, IA 51106

www.countrysideretirement.com

SOS Children's Villages Illinois
This is our third year providing our handmade blankets to the children of SOS Village Lockport and the newly opened SOS Urban Village Chicago. In partnering with SOS we have an ongoing commitment to provide a blanket for each child as they begin their life at the Village. SOS notifies us as they receive children and indicate the age and gender of the children so that we can ensure everyone gets a blanket. The children at SOS Village range in age from newborn to 18 years old, and everyone gets their own blanket to love and hold on to.

In 2004, Lockport Village expanded from eleven to eighteen single-family homes. The Village also has a playground, a fully equipped community and learning center, and administration buildings. Warm the World insured each new child was greeted with a special blanket - all 96 children!

The Chicago Village is the first urban foster care village in the entire world. Located on what was an abandoned lot for more than 20 years, SOS now has 12 single-family homes and four duplexes on the site. In addition, 24 moderate-income homes are among the SOS homes on the scattered site. The Urban Village will have a Community Center which will house a Day Care Center, an Early Head Start program, a therapy center, a learning center, a recreational center, and administrative offices. And if that isn't enough, there are two extraordinary programs that will be piloted within the SOS Urban Village "Fostering Families" and "Pregnant and Parenting Teens." And Warm the World is honored to provide our small piece of this puzzle by providing our blankets for this new Urban Village. In anticipation of the new homes opening, we shipped 95 blankets to help get them started. Once they get the demographics for the Urban Village we will once again insure everyone has their special blanket.

Teen Mania Ministries Global Expeditions
Since 2003, the Global Expeditions Team traveling to Romania has assisted Warm the World by hand delivering our afghans to children of need. We chose Romania because of the enormous number of children in crisis. Teaming with Teen Mania assures us that our afghans of love are given to the children that need a warm touch so desperately. The afghans we make specifically for these children are filled with lots of color, texture, patterns and design. In many instances, the only stimulation the children get are from the few items that surround them in an otherwise bleak environment. We hope to expand our efforts to provide many more afghans to the Romanian children in the near future.

Fort Carson, the Mountain Post
Fort Carson, the Mountain Post, is an Army post located southwest of Colorado Springs, between Interstate 25 and Highway 115. This post is recognized as one of the world's premier locations to lead, train, and maintain while preparing soldiers to win on the battlefield. Because of the mission of Fort Carson, troops are deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom on a regular basis. With this in mind, our special project for 2005 has been to make baby blankets for each baby born to the 3D Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR), which consists of 5000 soldiers. Add the active duty female soldiers expecting babies, and you have 400 new arrivals at the Mountain Post, and that's just for the 3D ACR.

With Operation Iraqi Freedom being a long-term commitment, Warm the World will continue to support troops deploying from Fort Carson. We need to remember our fighting soldiers and by wrapping their new baby in a blanket made with love, we pass not only our support but also our love to them.

In addition to the various organizations listed, we are currently in communication with the following organizations and hope to add them to our growing list in 2007:

Pine Ridge Reservation - Lakota Indian Reservation
We hope to provide much needed items, including but limited to: mittens, gloves, hats, scarves and blankets.

New Horizons Prison Children's Program - This wonderful group provide homes for the children of women inmates in Colorado. We hope to provide baby blankets, hat and booties to this wonderful group.

We also supported the Arkansas Children's Hospital (Knit for Noggins) program and will add them to our list of places we support annually. We committed and attained our goal of providing 500 hats for their annual hat drive. See our "links" page for more information on ACH.

If you have an organization you would like for us to explore and see if we can provide a much needed item to, send the information to: Founder@warmtheworld.org