Riviera @ East Windsor Women's Club

Emma Olivia shares, “For the past 8 years the women of Riviera @ East Windsor, NJ have made over 2500 Izzy dolls to be sent throughout the world to third world countries. These dolls are used instead of packing peanuts in between the medicines that are escorted by a representative from ICROSS, (International Community for the Relief of Suffering and Starvation) to these countries. The warlords take a portion of the medicines in exchange for letting the dolls be distributed to the children in orphanages, hospitals, etc. Some of these children are terminally ill with AIDS and these dolls become a large part of their lives. We use Poly-Fil to stuff our dolls, and we distribute approximately 450 dolls per year.”