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

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

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

Dallas Smith string results -nearly gone!

Dallas-Smith-Country file photo

Dallas Smith and his entire band donated a good many guitar and bass strings a few months ago when we saw them perform in Kamloops just as the pandemic was ending. We are down to the last very few, and have been able to donate a substantial amount to World… Continue reading Continue reading

Thanks to our supporters for 2022

2022 was a rough year for so many what with Covid still not quite ended, and the world economy taking a hit – but so many were generous despite personal challenges and it was much appreciated. We were able secure used guitar strings from European heavy metal band Saxon, guitarist… Continue reading