The other day one of my outreach mom’s approached me that
she needed a new phone. Recently I have been convicted to not just give $ or
even to just go buy what my families need for them but to finds ways to have
them be apart in working for what they need. With the help of Presidue we came
up with the idea of having her work for 4 mornings for me sewing & helping
with projects to earn the $ she needed to buy a new phone.
This mother came for 3 days (1 day she stayed 8 hours
instead of ) in a row & helped me make 20 new boppy pillows (Actually 40 as
each had an inside pillow with a waterproof cover on the outside). I thought I could just set her up and
have her work but I quickly realized that there were portions I would have to
complete like sewing on the sewing machine ;-) I wanted to teach her how to use
the sewing machine but did not have a translator available and since it was my
first time sewing on a sewing machine did not think I was a good one to teach
;-)
This mother helped me accomplish a lot in 16 hours of work.
She helped fix boppy pillows we already had by hand sewing the places they had
wripped open, she helped me cut out patterns for small, medium and large boppy
pillows out of regular & waterproof fabric, to helped cut up old clothing
to stuff the pillows with and sew the tops of the pillows shut, and on the last
day she helped put snaps on the cloth diapers that still needed snaps.
It was such a blessing to work alongside this mother. She
was such a hardworker. I do wish I knew more English and could have talked to
her more. I did play Christian creole music while we worked ;-)
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