Current Needs

As a Texas-based charity, Warm Up America! feels a special connection to the people of Houston and all the Gulf Coast towns who have been impacted by Hurricane Harvey. Working with local shelters and other relief organizations, we plan to provide afghans to families as the rescue phase shifts to rebuilding.

Our goal is to assemble as many youth and adult afghans as possible and we need your help to realize this goal. If it is possible to crochet or knit an entire afghan, youth or lap robe (see size chart below) and donate to Warm Up America! that would be amazing. However, we always accept 7” by 9” sections, which our wonderful local volunteers will assemble.

We will be collecting afghans and sections plus assembling afghans at the upcoming Stitches Texas show, September 14-17 at the Irving Convention Center in Irving, TX.

Warm Up America! is again supporting the East African Preterm Birth Initiative at the University of California San Francisco. Last year WUA! volunteers helped the organization create an amazing 17,000+ hats for newborns. The hats were so well received by new mothers and health workers in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya, the University team is hoping to match last year’s hat total and expand the program to additional low- and middle-income countries. The deadline for sending hats for the Tiny Hats for Tiny Babies campaign is November 17, 2018, World Prematurity Day. For more details about the initiative, and hat patterns, check out this special page at the website.