Operation Kid Comfort
- Sam and his quilt.
Operation Kid Comfort creates custom-made quilts and pillows for children of deployed U.S. military personnel who experience grief from missing their mom or dad. Photos of the deployed parent are printed onto fabric and sewn into the quilt or pillow. Each child received a quilt/pillow depending on age. Children 6 and under receive a quilt, 7 and older receive a pillow. Both quilts and pillows contain pictures of the deployed parent.
Available Locations
The list below is of the U.S. military installations currently offering the Operation Kid Comfort program. If your spouse’s duty station is listed below, submit that station’s OKC Quilt/Pillow Request Release Form and required number of pictures directly with them:
Request a Quilt
Parents or loved ones of children of deployed parents NOT stationed at one of the locations listed above, can request a quilt or pillow by filling out the Operation Kid Comfort Request Form.
The form on this site is only for those families NOT stationed at one of the military installations currently offering the Kid Comfort program.
Volunteering
Operation Kid Comfort has been featured on CNN’s American Morning and in numerous trade and military magazines and local newspapers. Due to the publicity of the program, requests for quilts are coming in from all over the country. Volunteers have created nearly 6,000 quilts since the program started, averaging about 1,000 quilts each year. Your participation in Operation Kid Comfort will help to guarantee the continued success of one of ASYMCA’s most popular programs.
To volunteer for the Operation Kid Comfort program, please fill out the Volunteer Quilter Form.
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