By Noelani Mathews | WCTV Eyewitness News
VALDOSTA, Ga. (WCTV) — A group called the Chemo Cap Brigade are knitting hundreds of hats for cancer patients going through chemotherapy.
“All of them do it because they love to do it,” says Jeannie Grow. “They want to give back. They want to do something.”
Grow started the group after fighting breast cancer and undergoing chemotherapy.
She says eight she never expected this group eight years later.
The Chemo Cap Brigade is made up of 25 women that knit colorful hats every month for cancer patients across South Georgia.
“Every month you think, what if no hats show up? We give over a hundred hats a month,” says Grow.
She says they always make the count, and after, those hats end up on a rack at South Georgia Medical Center.
They’re all made with love, and free to a good home.
“We wanted it to be something nice, something personal, something that we felt like people would feel special going in there,” says Grow.
A kind message is attached to each hat, but the cheerful volunteers behind them are not revealed.
“We don’t want credit,” says Grow. “We just want them to know somebody is loving them and is praying for them as they go through this hard time.”
The group knows they can’t change a person’s life, but they can change the way one copes with hair loss.
They meet every last Thursday of the month, and are always looking for more volunteers.
