KNITTING enthusiasts have ‘chipped in’ for a special project helping Uganda’s so-called ‘fish and chip babies’.

Milford Haven knitting group has created 62 hat and jumper sets, which will be taken to Africa to help babies born into poverty keep warm at night.

Sent home wrapped in newspaper because their families cannot afford clothes for them, these infants are born into ‘awful conditions’, said group member Barbara Holmes, who was behind the decision to help out.

Her daughter – a nurse who works with premature babies – was part of a team of volunteers from a hospital in Basingstoke who went out to Uganda for two weeks.

With no access to birth control, AIDS, and limited sanitation, many babies struggle to survive, and when the temperature plummets at night, many die.

But thanks to the knitting group’s 17 hardworking members, more than 60 babies will now have a bright snug outfit to help keep them warm.

The jumpers will be taken out to Uganda later this month, and the knitting group’s next project is to make donations for charity Ty Hafan.

The knitting group, which has been going for 32 years, meets every Wednesday at 7pm at Mastlebridge Village Hall, and new members are always welcome.