A Gift Tailored to a Need

A new school uniforms project began in Barek Aub with the generous donation of $12,000 from an anonymous individual. This gift allowed Sozo to purchase start-up materials and supplies for the sewing business and material for 1,000 uniforms, for the boys and girls of Barek Aub. It also pays the wages for the seamstresses to be trained, to work on the uniforms, and to plan for more sewing work in the future. These women will also sew uniforms for the Hopeful Hearts School in Kabul, which recently opened for street children in the city. The women also want to outfit their families and help support them by working.

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Team Measures Relationships

New school, new supplies and desks, and now Sozo is helping a community of Afghan refugees provide new uniforms for their children. A team of Sozo volunteers who traveled to Barek Aub in March, 2009 spent hours measuring each of the nearly 1,000 children in this community of Afghan refugees for new school uniforms--something new for most of these kids.

 “They’re used to getting bags of stuff,” said team leader Bob Tunnell, who is from the Flatirons Community Church in Lafayette, Colo. But measuring each skinny, squirming child individually for a specially  tailored uniform for school became something else altogether. “They’re not used to getting measured,” Tunnell said.

Patty Tunnell measures a Barek Aub girl for a new school uniform.

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