“CARE AND SHARE” is a community service BABY DOLL PROJECT created by Renée Gauthier of the Ottawa Doll and Collectors Guild.

During the past eight years, the Guild has collected, cleaned, repaired, dressed and placed over 500 baby-sized dolls with long term care patients in the Ottawa area. Nurturing these "babies" is particularly beneficial to Alzheimers patients.

This project requires your support. Suitable baby dolls are becoming very difficult for us to find. We need soft bodied, gently used, life-size baby dolls. We do not charge for this service, therefore, donated dolls are very much appreciated.

For information or pick-up, please contact us at careandshare@live.ca

Photo of Renée Gauthier

This link will take you to an interesting article on the benefits that Alzheimers patients derive from owning a baby doll: Article by Robin Redmond, Writer - Editor

Please note that the contact information in the article above is out of date. Please us the email address above.