Amy Jandrisevits spent years working as a social worker in pediatric oncology in Wisconsin, United States.
There, she noticed something that stayed with her: children with scars, prostheses, or physical differences could never find a doll that looked like them. None had the same scar, the same wheelchair, or the same missing arm. So in 2015, she turned her dining room into a sewing workshop and founded A Doll Like Me.
Since then and to this day, she has sewn each doll by hand, thread by thread: five hours of work to replicate exactly the body of a real child, with their Treacher Collins syndrome, prosthesis, or birthmark.
She has already given away more than 500, all for free, sustained solely by donations. To each child, she says the same thing with her hands before words: I see you, and you are perfect just as you are.
