I was running out of cotton fabric and I decided to ask if there were any sewers on the Social Media site Streetlife who could perhaps donate a meter of cotton fabric towards this project. After going on to Streetlife Social Media discussing our latest project, which is to Dress a girl around the World.
To my amazement the generous ladies of Mansfield volunteered to sew these dresses
Companies Team Tots from Eastwood and Braxton Interior donated fabric, as well as people who have stashes of fabric at home.
A tutor in Fashion and Textiles contacted me offering fabric and she also has set a project for her students to complete a dress each.
This has led to me being interviewed by the local Mansfield Newspaper The Chad, being interviewed on Radio Nottingham and tomorrow on Radio Mansfield, this project has snowballed, in fact the snowball is turning into a snowman.
Over 200 dresses were sent to Maidenhead where our contact Gill Curry received them, these dresses are destine for Sierra Leone, where girls will r
eceive a new dress enabling them to go to school and get an education, their ladder out of poverty. It will also deter people traffickers.