For several years, Karen Bradley, the owner of Nursing and Hospital Scrubs uniforms manufacturer,Sassy Scrubs, from Penn Yan, New York, has been concentrated on making baby quilts to send to orphans in China. In addition to spending long weekends in her sewing room, she has encouraged workers at her company, Sassy Scrubs, a US manufacturer of custom hospital uniforms, to create baby blankets and quilts in their extra time. Her efforts captured the attention of Colorado’s adoption agency, CCAI, as well as the officials at China’s CCAA. Karen happily announces that her Blankets for Babies Project has been enlarged!

In a new partnership between Chinese Children Adoption International (CCAI) and the China Center of Adoption Affairs (CCAA), Karen’s Blankets for Babies Project has been accepted as an Official Project by the CCAA! The Chinese name for this project is “ai xin xiao mian tan” and roughly translates to “Small Blankets of Love”, an apt name for this project of the heart. Karen has shipped over 6,000 quilts and blankets to Chinese orphanages already through her volunteer Blankets for Babies Project and the growth of this project to Official Status will allow her to continue her work with the waiting children of China’s orphanages.

As Project Manager, Bradley accepted a challenge to provide 1,000 blankets and quilts to be received by CCAA prior to June 1, 2007, which was Children’s Day in China. Bradley manufactured the blankets, on a volunteer basis, through her own manufacturing company, Sassy Scrubs, and shipped the blankets and quilts to the Chinese Center of Adoption Affairs to be distributed in time for the Children’s Day holiday, nearly two thousand of them! The end focus for the blanket project is to provide comforting baby blankets for 10,000 children – quite a challenge!  Karen plans to continue her volunteer Blankets for Babies project until the goal is met.