Students at Green Lake Elementary School (2400 N 65th St) recently made dresses for orphaned Ugandan girls.
The project was headed up by Kate Sipe, the school’s PE and Swimming Teacher. When Ms. Sipe’s mother passed away, she left a large collection of fabric. The dresses were made from the fabric in her honor.
Trina Gadsden, Executive Director of Sister Schools, distributed the dresses to girls at an orphanage in Kampala, Uganda.
“When the girls put [the dresses] on, their faces and sparkle in their eyes could light the sky, they were so happy,” Gadsden writes.
Kampala, Uganda photo: jameelwinter
You can read more about Gadsden’s visit to the orphanage here, and you can see a picture of one of the girls receiving her dress here.
Thanks for the tip, Patty!
This is a wonderful gesture by Kate Sipe and the students at Green Lake Elementary. The expression of the young girl in the photo is priceless, and speaks volumes. We are helping a young Ugandan – an orphan – through college in a school not far from Kampala, and having put two of our own children through universities in the US, the experience has been both highly gratifying and a lesson in the things we sometimes take for granted here.