Organizers for the Granny Connection HIV and AIDS Awareness Campaign for World AIDS Day are seeking volunteer knitters to create homemade red scarves and to "put a little love into each stitch," as one of the group’s emails puts it.
For the past several years, the Granny Connection has marked World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 by placing scarves, on downtown trees and lampposts as a sign of care and compassion for those living with HIV or AIDS and those who have died from AIDS-related causes.
Any size will do. Completed scarves can be dropped off at Mill Race Center by Nov. 24.
The Granny Connection is a local group caring for children orphaned by AIDS in African nations and elsewhere.
The Red Scarf Project was launched in 2012 by the staff at the Regional HIV/AIDS Connection in London, England, as a means of delivering a meaningful impact for World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 each year.
The scarves will remain in their locations until someone removes one, simply for a warm neck covering, project leaders said. After a few days, scarves that are left will be taken down and given to charitable causes.
