1234 dresses

Most of the citizens who live in Davenport, Iowa in the USA are elderly retired people. So they have a lot of free time in their hands. Many of the ladies meet once a week to practice their favorite hobby: sewing. Whatever they create is sold for charity. Among these ladies there was 100-year old lady called Lillian Weber. In 2011 she joined this group and for her this wasn’t a passtime, but a mission. Lilian wanted to do as many dresses as possible for the girls in Africa. In her first two years, she was able to sew 840 dresses, all different . She used ever string and bow and button to make each dress unique. She persevered in her endeavor to make one dress a day for the African girls, and when she stopped, she had crafted 1234 dresses. She stopped sewing 2 days before she died on May 5th, 2016, just one day before she would have turned 101.