(Submitted Anis Narang)īecause her daughter has Asperger's, Anis said she's not one to go out and volunteer in-person. The teen said it takes about two hours of knitting per hat, so the time adds up.Īllysa and her father, Vic, dropped off more than 100 knitted hats on Saturday to the Calgary Drop-In Donation Centre. "I didn't expect when she first started that it would be continuing on five years later … She's a much better person than I was at her age, and just seeing her do that every day, it's taught me and her dad a lot about giving back and how we spend our time." "As her parents, we're always surprised that she's continuing to do this," Anis said. But Anis and her husband could not predict where their daughter would take this project. "Then we were like, 'OK, we have enough hats,'" Anis said.Īnis, who taught Allysa how to knit when her daughter was just five years old, suggested that they donate the extra hats to a local drop-in centre. "I'm glad I can do something good for my community."Īccording to Narang's mother, Anis, her daughter started knitting hats for her family a few years ago. "I just kind of like doing crafts and doing things with my hands, and I find it relaxing," said Narang. She started this annual donation of knitted hats as a way to do something she loved while helping others. For the past five years a young Calgarian has been spending hundreds of hours knitting hats to donate to one of the city's drop-in centres.Īllysa Narang, 16, stopped by the Calgary Drop-In Centre on Saturday to donate the 105 hats she knitted throughout the year.
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