CHILDREN on the Isle of Wight have taken part in a national project to help refugees around the world.
A group of youngsters from Niton Primary School have been busy crocheting squares for the 60 Million Trebles record attempt - a treble is a stitch, representing the 60 million people the UN estimates are displaced worldwide - to make the world's biggest blanket.
Following the launch of the #onestitchonelife project last year, Niton mother Alison Logan was keen to get involved.
She taught her daughter Alina, nine, to crochet, then started an after-school club for other children who wanted to help.
Now they have completed their contribution — a 36ins square which, in the summer, will be added to others from around the world. The squares will then be divided up and donated to refugee charities as individual blankets.
Alison, 41, of Undercliff Drive, said: "I don't like to push politics on them but all the children know why we are making the squares. They understand there are a lot of desperate people, including children, who don't have a home or a country.
"It's important children have an understanding of what's going on in the world, and they have learnt a new skill too."
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