Wrap with Love

Wrap with Love is an Australian charitable organisation, founded in 1992 by Sonia Gidley-King, OAM, to produce knitted wraps (used as blankets) as gifts for people who have exposed to the cold and susceptible to hypothermia and especially those who have experienced loss and trauma as a result of war.

[4] Although simple, this formula allows for an almost unlimited variety and the resulting wrap is a unique possession for its final owner.

[7][8] Finished wraps are collected by over twenty non-denominational and non-political aid agencies and taken to a warehouse in Alexandria, New South Wales from where they are distributed to other charities working directly with communities in need.

For example, as of 2012 World Vision Australia had distributed to Armenia, Romania, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Zambia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Laos and Thailand.

[9] In 2013 they distributed a further 10,180 hand-knitted blankets and wraps to Burundi, Malawi, Mongolia, Swaziland, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

A handknitted "Wrap with Love" blanket on display at Engadine library.
Detail of knitted wrap square with kangaroo motif