D.C. had a question: What if the local K & K women were taught how to sew? Would that skill have a positive benefit for the church and therefore the community? In December 2014 a group of U.S. men and women made and sold Christmas wreaths to earn funds to purchase eight sewing machines. Then, in 2015 KMI sponsored Sipi Sewing Service (SSS), at Sipi Falls Resort, which was an initial sewing training for a dozen women. Four women from Powell Butte Christian Church traveled with us to Uganda and provided hands-on basic-training for the local ladies. The sewing machines were then transported to
K & K and their initial training was followed by a month of further practice and instruction provided by a professional Ugandan seamstress. Now those women are teaching other women how to sew, and those newly trained women are teaching other women to sew, etc. Currently they are learning to sew school uniforms.
UPDATE: In 2020, a team of U.S. women traveled once again to teach sewing. This time, the project was quilt top making and quilt construction. While the younger Ugandan women used their treadle machines to make the quilt tops, the older women loved gathering around the quilting frames and doing the hand sewing finish work. Much visiting and laughter ensued.
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