{"id":1482,"date":"2014-03-12T18:06:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T17:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2020-04-09T12:19:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:19:40","slug":"si-lichfield-sewing-bee-100-not-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/2014\/03\/12\/si-lichfield-sewing-bee-100-not-out\/","title":{"rendered":"SI Lichfield Sewing Bee &#8211; 100 not out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1480\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/03\/Birkina-Faso-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1480\" alt=\"Birkina Faso 11\" src=\"\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/03\/Birkina-Faso-11-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/03\/Birkina-Faso-11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/lichfield\/files\/2014\/03\/Birkina-Faso-11-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers from the Centre open the case of dresses and teddies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The group of Lichfield Soroptimists who formed their own Sewing Bee last year have been busy bees again, making 100 dresses for the girls in the orphanage, Orphelinat Sainte\u00a0Therese de Lumbila, in Oubritenga, Burkina Faso.\u00a0 Founded in 1995 the centre is home to over 100 children and supports a further 200 in the community,<\/p>\n<p>Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world.\u00a0 The dresses, which will clothe girls from infants to teens, were taken out there by Gillie Nicholls, founder of the charity Les Amis (Reg. No 1120772).\u00a0 The charity was set up in 2007 to serve the poor and needy of Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanying the dresses, Gillie also took with her 50 hand knitted teddy bears which, it is hoped, will bring a smile to these children.<\/p>\n<p>Gillie will give a talk about the work undertaken by Les Amis at our Regional Meeting on Saturday 14<sup>th<\/sup> June 2014 at Quinton Methodist Church Ridgeacre Lane, B32 1EN.<\/p>\n<p>For further information about this and our other projects please contact Bev Billings on 01543 491802 or 07710 379862.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The group of Lichfield Soroptimists who formed their own Sewing Bee last year have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SI Lichfield Sewing Bee - 100 not out! | News | Blog | Events | SI Lichfield and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Lichfield and District : Blog &amp; News : SI Lichfield Sewing Bee - 100 not out! : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Lichfield and District . 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