A New Dress for Every Girl
This is Lois Coleman from Minnesota. A few years ago, a thought came to her mind to “dress a girl.” At the time, she wasn’t sure just what that meant. She had previously been involved in a local program called, “Dress A Doll.” Volunteers dressed a doll and then the dolls were given to needy families at Christmas.
After doing some internet searching, she discovered a group called “Dress a Girl Around the World” (DAG) under the organization Women for Hope International. The volunteer sewing groups started up all around the world and have delivered over 2 million dresses to 90 countries. They attach pink DAG labels in each dress and make sure that every dress has pockets. Lois connected with a DAG ambassador in Richfield, MN who is responsible for gathering dresses and finding distributors, who are sometimes difficult to find.
Because the “Creator works in mysterious ways,” said Lois, she connected with OGT Collection center in Morris, MN that teams up with OGT Wisconsin to send out containers internationally. She met with Eugene and Darlene Pasche, long-time volunteers at MN-North and learned her dresses could be distributed through OGT. She delivered 750 dresses made using several different patterns and sewn from quality cotton. Lois’s “dress a girl” idea became real when she began sewing dresses for “Dress a Girl Around the World’ and then finding a distributor through Orphan Grain Train MN-North.
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