BUTLER COUNTY, Ohio — Kimberly Renner is on a mission.
- A Cincinnati woman started a local Binky Patrol back in August and hasn’t stopped sewing since
- She and a group of volunteers make blankets for kids who have gone through trauma, are sick, abused or neglected
- She says by Christmas more than 500 kids will have a blanket in the Greater Cincinnati area
Armed with a sewing machine and some fabric, she started a local Binky Patrol.
“I have a troop of volunteers and I told them I wanna do 500 blankets by Christmas.”
She and a group of volunteers spend hours in her basement just north of Cincinnati, in West Chester, sewing, cutting and tying blankets together for kids — kids who she says remind her of herself.
“I was, I was….abused as a child,” said Renner.
And with tears in her eyes, she says it’s why she keeps going non-stop since August.
“I get the satisfaction that there are kids out there, that they think no one cares, and I’m saying I care,” said Renner.
By Christmas, she says she’ll make another delivery, and more than 500 kids going through trauma, abuse and neglect will have what she says will be more than just a blanket.
“When you feel like no one cares, when you wanna cry or you’re mad and you wanna punch something just wrap the blanket around you, and they can say someone does care, they cared enough that they made this blanket for me, it’s mine, I get to take it no matter where I go,” Renner said.
The Binky Patrol she started in Butler County is a part of a national organization that makes blankets to comfort kids.
If you or someone you know needs one, or if you want to volunteer to make one, you can visit the Binky Patrol website.
