Earlier in the year Judith Havill, through a 3 minute talk, told us of her interest in making dresses for the Dress a Girl Around the World program. Dress a Girl Around the World is a campaign under Hope 4 Women International bringing dignity to women around the world since 2006.
- "Imagine a world where every girl owned at least one dress," this is the motto of the Dress a Girl Around the World program.
- Recipients love the dresses because they are so pretty! They help the children realise they have dignity and are worthy of love. Many girls are overlooked and often abused with no one to protect them.
- Dress a Girl dresses have a Dress a Girl label on the outside front of the dress which may help protect the girls from predators. The label indicates that an organization is looking after the wearer and just maybe a predator will pass us over! That's worth the extra time and effort, don't you think.
This is a clothes line of some of the dresses that I have made.
Dresses made in NZ go to Solomon’s, Vanuatu, Fiji, Myanmar Orphanage, Kenya, Ghana, and Vietnam. They work with organisations such as Children of Massai, QuanAm Foundation, Fountain of Peace Children’s Foundation in Uganda, Heart of Hope Charitable Organisation (widows and orphans) in Solomon Islands for delivery of dresses to local girls. Shorts and tees for boys are also made which have gone to Uganda.
All garments go with people travelling from NZ so that the clothing reaches its destination. Dresses are sewn by people throughout New Zealand.
When Bruce Phillips travelled to the Solomon Islands in July he took some of the Dress a Girl dresses with him and they were distributed by the local Hearts of Hope Charity. Bruce furnished this extract from their local newspaper the Solomon Times issues of the 12 October 2018.
