Pictures From Haiti

Here are a few pictures of the girls wearing some of the dress we made. Please email me, sisterhope08@yahoo.com, if you want to see a picture of your dress and I can email it to you. Thanks again for putting a smile on these girls' faces. The person that delivered them said that every dress she handed out she told them that Jesus loved and cared about them.

Dress Patterns

Hi Ladies,

I thought you might be interested in seeing how to make a strap dress. This pattern is a little old but still works. If you are interested I posted instructions.
Sorry for the misspelling. The pictures and writing took forever and now it won't let me go back and correct it.For a 5T dress the width should be a 15 1/2" (add 1" seam) The length should be 21" (again add 1" for seam.) Also instead of ripping the dress we now sew the elastic in the hem, at the top of the dress.
You can do these kind of straps or you can do a halter top with ribbon.

Sewing Day

Thanks to everybody who made the dresses. They are being delivered in Haiti tomorrow :)

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Last July we sent 53 dresses to Zimbabwe! They went to a very poor orphanage! Thanks you to everybody that helped make the dresses. Your greatly appreciated. We did get a few pictures back. Enjoy!

I love this picture! On the right is a bright "Dress of Hope."

Dresses of Hope Going to Malawi

This week some "dresses of hope" are going with my friend, Leta, to Malawi, Africa. Malawi is a small, skinny country in the southern part of Africa. Leta is a college student from Indiana Wesleyan University and is traveling there to work with orphans and kids in poverty. Please pray for Leta and her team. Hopefully I will have pics to post when she returns:)

A Video That Warms My Heart

I think this video is so cool! Seems like they truly know God. They are orphans, living in complete poverty yet have so much joy and faith in God. They're definitely singing to their ultimate father, God. Sometimes I think that in America we have so much stuff,food,clothing etc. that we rely on things on earth to help us through our days, not really giving our hurts, troubles and decisions up to God. In Haiti they have very little but some seem to lean on God more. They get it! They understand him. Check out this video! :)

Dresses of Hope In Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

Last February, the dresses were delivered to an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Our friend that traveled delivered the dresses said that they love them. She also said that they loved picking out there dresses. I'll post this later but she also captured a video of a few of the girls singing to god in there new dresses. Thanks again for every single thing each one of you has done with Dresses of Hope to clothes girls in poverty. Every effort you've done whether it was sewing a dress, coming to a sewing day or praying for a little girl that got a dress you made, remember you are doing it for God. I also wanted to share with you that we have made over 400 dresses since November 2009!

Change of Plans

Wanted to let everybody know that the dresses for India are actually going to orphans in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti this week. The person that was going to deliver them to India had a change of plans and is in Haiti.

Pictures From Caracol Haiti!

We sent 75 dresses to Caracol! They picked some of the poorest kids in the community to come and get dresses. Also the boys got shorts so both the girls and the boys got clothes. Thanks again for praying and making this possible. :)

The First Sewing Day of the Year!

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Thanks again everybody who made the dresses or took the pictures! Your work and willing heart is going to clothe girls in India and Haiti. The Haiti team leaves Feb. 2. Please keep them in your prayers. The India team leaves in a few weeks so if you have any dresses that you have made are completed please turn them in by Feb 3. Also if you need the dresses to be picked up from your house please contact me and we can make arrangements.

Update

Hi Ladies!

Just wanted to let you all know that we have made close to 100 dresses since the end of July. Thanks to everybody who made it possible. In February we are going to send half of the dresses to orphans in India and then the other half of dresses to girls in Haiti. Our goal is to get 150 dresses by the end of January. Thanks again for helping. So far we have sent 88 dresses to Mexico, 165 dresses to Haiti and dresses are being sent to India and more to Haiti!

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Dresses of Hope in Kenya

Recently, a friend of our family's went on a short term mission trip to Kenya to work with orphans. Before she went on the trip she wanted to learn how to make dresses so she could sew them for girls in poverty! Here are a few of the girls wearing the dresses.

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Total Number of Dresses

Just wanted to update all of you with the total number of dresses made. We sent 158 to Haiti. Then, we sent 87 to Mexico, which leaves us with a total of 245 dresses since we started last September!!! Very exciting. We have alot of different sewing options for our next batch of dresses. But, I don't know for sure where the dresses are going yet. Possibly Ethiopia or India. Keep posted for upcoming sewing days.

A Giving Heart

This is the train that the sweet girl gave me.


Here is the girl.

On Monday, of my trip to Mexico, we went to Rio 3, which means river in spanish. The people there are in complete poverty and have very little food and clothing. As we were passing out bracelets, one of the girls handed me her newly painted train, which I could tell she was very proud of. She has very little, but her heart is full of generosity. That little girl at Rio 3 opened my eyes to see her giving heart shining.
As you can see there is garabage everywhere.


The kids have so much joy even though they have very little.

Pictures from Mexico

Thank you all so much who made dresses for Mexico!!
We really appreciate it!!

How Many Dresses We've Made

Hi Ladies,
just thought I'd inform you that
we have 77 dresses ready to for Mexico
and 24 headbands!!!!! I'm very gratefulll everbody's help in
making our goal get accomplishedand more!!
Thanks so much for everything!!!! Keep sewing are next goal is to send
at least a hundered dresses to Ethiopia in January!!!

Mexico

Hi Everbody,
Sorry for not blogging for a while, my summer has been really busy.In early July my mom and I are going to Mexico as some of you know, to work with orphans and also we will personally be able to hand deliver the dresses. Our goal is to sew 75 dresses. Please keep us in your prayers as we prepare to leave.

It's Growing

Hey Guys, just thougt I'd let you know that Dresses of Hope is expanding to a few states. One of my friends heard about what we were doing and got inspired to launch a dress ministry at her church in St. Louis. This summer she is going on a mission trip to work with orphans in Kenya and is going to hand deliver dresses that she made to the children. I also just found out that a lady in our church has told her mom who lives in Florida, about it and is going to make dresses for Dresses of Hope and ship them to us.
Wow, what a blessing!!! Thanks to all of the people who have given contributions and sewn dresses for Dresses of Hope. Your hard work is greatly appreciated by the girls that will wear them.