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It was a community movement including a local Zumba instructor, Pismo Beach Cities Lions Club, and The Magic Yarn Project.

Delivered by pirates to So Original Yarn Studio in Columbia, Md., a large box filled with skeins of multicolored yarn was indeed a treasure chest for recipient Brittany Harrison.

As a chapter leader with the Magic Yarn Project, a nonprofit that provides free character wigs to children dealing with cancer and other medical hair loss, Sykesville resident Brittany Harrison will create wigs with the help of a generous donation by HoCo Pirate Adventures for the month of September — national Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

JEDDAH: Nabila Samir Ben Slimane learned how to knit when she was a young child and now her passion for crocheting is helping children across the Arab world. Ben Slimane launched New Smile, a Saudi-based project that provides handmade hats for children suffering from cancer. She leads a group of more than 40 volunteers that designs, manufactures, and delivers hats and beanies to patients who have lost their hair while battling the disease. “I met with many children in the hospital who suffered hair loss due to chemotherapy,” said Ben Slimane, a mother of four, who works at the King Faisal...