Pillowcase Dresses For African Orphans

Pillowcase project is sewing dresses from pillowcases for orphan girls at christian life ministries in uganda africa.
Pillowcase dresses for african orphans. The pillow case dress pattern is so super easy check it out. Her friend had a simple dress pattern that she had used to make dresses for girls in africa. When susan doellinger learned that her husband pastor paul doellinger was traveling to haiti with food for the poor. Pillowcase dresses for young african girls.
This is a wonderful non profit organization that is providing simple sweet dresses for children in central africa hit hard by the aids epidemic. Volunteers will sew the dresses and donate them to little dresses for africa a nonprofit that provides dresses for orphaned african girls. Wearing their new dresses. And all you need to donate is a pillow case and some time.
Here are guidelines on how to make dresses out of unwanted cotton pillowslips. They were making dresses out of pillowcases for women in need. We have taken dresses to orphans in ghana made by ladies in stratford upon avon but now we need many more to go to a new project in eastern rwanda. Little dresses for africa is collecting dresses made from gently used pillow cases or new in hopes of offering relief for these families in need.
Cduk encourages recycling to conserve the earths depleted resources. Now that she is president of the council she decided to bring back the activity. Many of these children are orphans cared for by sibling and sometimes clothes are a luxury. Once finished you can connect with someone who is planning a trip to africa or some other location where dresses are needed or you can send your dresses to little dresses for africa or dress a girl around the world.
September 13 2013 february 21 2018. Not a seamstress she was amazed. Since pillowcase dresses are designed to grow with the girl the patterns tend to be one size fits all i wanted my pillowcase dress to fit a bit better so i created three different pattern sizes. This post includes step by step instructions on how to sew the pillowcase dress with photos for you to follow.
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Pillowcase donations will be accepted through early january. Volunteers sew pillowcase dresses for haitian orphans. By glenda meekins november 19 2019. Pillowcase dresses clothe orphans in ghana.