To Ukraine with love: Freemasons send battalion of cuddly toys to displaced children
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It’s not often that a frog, a walrus, and a sloth get together on an international aid mission – and even less often that they’ll be accompanied by a chameleon, a bear with wings, and an assortment of other teddies.
These are the latest collection of cuddly toys being made available by Lincoln Freemasons’ ‘Teddy Man’ Graham Cadel to be sent on to Ukraine to help comfort children who’ve been forced to flee three homes after the Russian invasion.
The collection of several dozen similar stuffed animals were the property of Ruth Pearcey, daughter of Freemason Stuart Pearcey, who said: “They’ve been carefully preserved in a box in our loft for about 20 years, and I’d forgotten they were there until we started to clear the loft unreadiness for a house move. Ruth didn’t want to keep them, so it seemed the obvious choice to pass them on to Graham.” Ruth said: “If you can get them to Ukrainian children, that would be wonderful.” We can do that; Graham has the connections!
Someone’s sure to love even this tarantula. “He’s not as fearsome as I make out in the picture,” says Stuart Pearcey. “He’s soft and cuddly.”
