{"id":1218,"date":"2016-03-16T17:14:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/mansfield\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2022-12-07T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T18:21:09","slug":"dresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/mansfield\/2016\/03\/16\/dresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Dresses Galore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was running out of cotton fabric and I decided to ask if there were any sewers\u00a0on\u00a0the Social Media site Streetlife\u00a0\u00a0who 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.<\/p>\n<p>To my amazement the generous ladies of Mansfield volunteered to sew these dresses<\/p>\n<p>Companies Team Tots from Eastwood and Braxton Interior\u00a0donated fabric, as well as people who have stashes of fabric at home.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1219\" src=\"\/mansfield\/files\/2016\/03\/Pam-Chad-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pam Chad\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/mansfield\/files\/2016\/03\/Pam-Chad-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/mansfield\/files\/2016\/03\/Pam-Chad.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/>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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was running out of cotton fabric and I decided to ask if there were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dresses Galore | News | Blog | Events | SI Mansfield and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Mansfield and District : Blog &amp; News : Dresses Galore : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Mansfield and District . 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