Pathfinders and several leaders stuffed 85 Izzie Dolls recently, which will be shopped with Boomer Caps to Afghanistan.

Some Afghani children use the dolls as pillows when they lie on the ground to sleep.

Mark R. Isfeld was a peacekeeper for the Canadian forces serving in the former Yugoslavia. Isfeld was killed in southern Croatia when the personnel carrier he was walking in front of hit a land mine.

His mother made dolls, which he distributed to children he met overseas. They came to be known as Izzie Dolls.

Andrew Eykelenboom was a Canadian military medic from Comox who was killed in Afghanistan when his unit was hit by a suicide bomber in August 2006.

He had told his mother about how little the children there had and the idea of Boomer Caps was born. They are tiny knitted caps that are sent to children in the war-torn, poverty-stricken country.