We’d love your help with the SEWPOWERFUL program designed to keep girls in school all month and provide jobs to seamstresses in Lusaka. Read all the details and download the beginners Cross Body Purse pattern/instructions to begin making purses. It is a printable PDF file.

To learn more about how these purses create academic achievement in Zambia, watch videos on the sewpowerful.org website and learn about the issue of Menstrual Hygiene Management. Kits will be ready to sew and we’ll teach you how to make the beginners purse.

Just bring your sewing machine and neutral thread. Class is limited to 6 so be sure to register early.

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