How it started

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In May 2006 two ladies sat down over coffee to talk about Bono (U2) and how his work with the One Campaign & Global Fund inspired them to want to ‘do’ something to help people in Africa.

But what to do? How to make a difference? We came up with a WILD idea!

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2026 Starts with Papa Roach and fans giving back

papa-roach-1 jerry horton comfort doll project

After seeing American rockers Papa Roach in November 2025, where guitarist Jerry Horton and bassist Tobin Esperance donated their used strings to us, we had an email from their tour manager about a week later. The guys had saved and collected their strings from almost all of the remaining shows… Continue reading

Papa Roach strings help feed those in need

American rockers Papa Roach have helped us out in the past – guitarist Jerry Horton sent some strings in 2016, a whole box in 2018 and in 2019 the band did a comfort doll photo with us as well as donating strings and a set of drumsticks from Tony Palermo…. Continue reading

Food Security from Dallas Smith & Sam Roberts Band strings

Dallas Smith Canadian country artist comfort doll project

Canadian Country artist Dallas Smith and Canadian rockers Sam Roberts Band have both donated strings to us in the past, and we found a few remaining strings in our archives. A week later and the completed bracelets were off to new owners enabling us to mutually donate $335.00 to World… Continue reading

2023 Recap Year end

so long 2023 comfort doll project

2023 wasn’t much better than 2022 for most people, and that was reflected in our fundraising; being one of the leanest years in our history. We are thankful for Canadian Country artist Dallas Smith donating a huge amount of strings from him and his band. And we were able to… Continue reading

Aaron Pritchett Strings for Big Wheel Charity Classic

Aaron Pritchett and Sarah Bramley Big Wheel charity classic comfort doll project

Canadian Country artist Aaron Pritchett has helped our charity for many years, with Comfort Doll photos, and donating strings – so when Aaron created his Big Wheel Charity and was looking for donated items for gift bags – we jumped in with some of the used guitar strings Aaron had… Continue reading