Serious Chimwemwe Ladies

 

On Saturday we had an extra meeting of the Chimwemwe Ladies.  The idea was to help the new members learn how to make the bags.  However, I had been unable to find crochet hooks in Lusaka.  We gathered anyway in the Assembly Room of the Community Center and had 3 stations that we rotated through.  In the middle on the carpet the women sat and learned how to prepare the plastic bags to be crocheted.  At one of our school tables women learned to make beads from paper.  At the second table, the women worked with some stamping materials that had been donated by a visitor several months ago. 

 

There were 58 women present and 25+babies and children.  At times we were serenaded by a baby "choir."   The executive committee had challenged the women to be serious about what we are doing and it seems that is happening.