In July 2016, my friend Suzanne called me out of the blue and said the most curious thing: I just met a family who moved to LA three weeks ago from Syria. Their 5-month old baby boy is at that age he wants to be upright but he can’t sit up on his own yet. Do you have a baby Jumperoo chair that you could spare?
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In July 2016, Miry Whitehill was a stay-at-home mom living in Southern California when a friend introduced her to a family of new arrival refugees from Syria—a dad, mom and their twin 5-year-old girls and 5-month-old baby boy. Whitehill’s friend, Suzanne, wanted to find a secondhand Fisher-Price Jumperoo chair (a chair that bounces and spins with toys that keep baby busy), so the tired parents could take a break. New Jumperoos cost between $70 and $130.
