Jacmal Sewing School
Jacmal, Haiti
Summer 2014
Today, we are starting a sewing school in Jacmel, Haiti. We gave out 20 sewing kits filled with used needles, scissors, threads, straight pins, old seam binding and all of those extra buttons we find on our new clothing that seem to disappear when we need them. The women opened the kits with the excitement of Christmas morning. They were told they could keep the kits but they couldn't believe what they were hearing.
"We can take them home?" they asked.
"Oui".
"We don't have to bring them back?"
"Oui".
"Just for us?"
"Oui."
They broke out in cheers and chanted, "Merci, merci, merci."
