Darylann has been involved in humanitarian work most of her life. After our children had families of their own she has and continues to step up this work and its reach. While in the United States, she coordinated others to join her in acquiring and assembling the items into newborn bundles for mothers and their babies in the most needy parts of the world. These bundles include a receiving blanket, cloth diapers, diaper pins, infant gown, booties, socks and soaps. Darylann and her companions also bought and assembled hygiene packets for care centers, hospitals and disaster areas that included towels, soaps, toothbrushes, toothpaste and combs. They created newborn colorful wall hangings, to prevent blindness in babies at orphanages who receive too little care for eye development. Workers gathered around and made beautiful as well as children’s fun quilts for needy all over the world.

Darylann’s desire to help has been especially drawn to women and children’s issues in some parts of Asia where they are tragically abused, uncared for and help is most desperately needed. Consequently, as I began traveling in China and India on entertainment industry projects, Darylann’s on-the-ground knowledge and urgent care, concern and commitments increased. Her interest and the opportunity for me to work there brought us to Mumbai India in 2008. Here, Darylann and her close friend Laurie Seil are working primarily with unskilled and mostly uneducated women assisting them in becoming financially more independent through teaching them English, sewing skills and providing treadle sewing machines; and teaching some strikingly bright, capable and unflinchingly positive children not able to enter the education system, basic learning, including speaking English. What a time in which we live, when we are blessed to make life-changing differences for such lovely people.