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Update on 21st February 2014<\/strong>: \u00a0136 dresses are now ready to be sent to our sister club SI Banjul in The Gambia. \u00a0This club has a number of projects with young women and girls in the rural areas of this extremely poor part of West Africa where they will distribute the dresses on our behalf.<\/p>\n

We are grateful to the girls from Test Valley School, St Swithun’s School, The Henry Beaufort School, local Girl Guides and Rangers and to members of SI Guildford and District for their creativity and enthusiasm in helping us to exceed our original target of 100 dresses.<\/p>\n

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Fourteen attractive pillowcase dresses launch our new project to bring dignity and pleasure to little girls in The Gambia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have joined a worldwide project with the simple premise that “every little girl deserves at least one pretty dress”. \u00a0It was started in October 2009 by\u00a0Hope 4 Women International<\/a>. \u00a0<\/strong>Since then the recorded number of pretty “pillowcase” dresses delivered worldwide is over 200,000 to 65 countries. \u00a0So, pillowcase dresses are being made with love all over the world and now, working with local schools, Girl Guides and Rangers, we are part of that movement.<\/p>\n

Jean Coveyduck writes:<\/p>\n

Carol Forse and I attended the Test Valley School Fashion Show on Friday 12 July.\u00a0 As part of their Project Week some Years 7 – 9 students chose a garment project.\u00a0 Their teacher, Caroline Hudson wanted the 14 girls who had signed up for this project to consider doing something for others less fortunate than themselves as well as producing fashion items.\u00a0 The girls, aged 11-14 years, were enthusiastic about the project and the pillowcase dresses became one of about 6 items each girl created during the week with the help of their teacher, Caroline, and her daughter, Laura.<\/p>\n

When Carol and I arrived there was a high degree of excitement as \u201cMiss\u201d had invited the whole school and staff to attend their end of project demonstration\/show.\u00a0 It had obviously attracted a huge amount of interest because far more students attended than were expected and the girls and \u201cMiss\u201d were somewhat taken-aback and rather intimidated \u2013 particularly by the male attendees!\u00a0 Fortunately a Deputy Head with a strong personality also attended and the audience was very well behaved.\u00a0 One rather diminutive girl eventually came out of her shell and turned into a real performer, much to the delight of the audience and to a point that it became quite difficult to get her to leave the stage!<\/p>\n

Before the Fashion Show, Carol spoke to the girls about Soroptimism, why she had become a member and the kinds of things we are involved in as a club.\u00a0 We both answered just a few questions and some leaflets and fliers were left for them to look at after the event.<\/p>\n

After the show and photo-call, Carol and I were presented with 14 dresses.\u00a0 The girls had used a great deal of individual style and talent in their own personal creations and we were delighted to receive them as the start to our own project.<\/p>\n

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