Dress A Girl
Dress a Girl Sedona is a donation-based organization that sews simple dresses to be distributed to needy girls worldwide to contribute to their sense of worth and dignity as well as to signal to would-be traffickers that the girl is under the care of an organization that knows her and would know if she went missing.
Project Leadership
Project Leadership
- Lin Ennis
- 928 300-3077
- DAGsedona@gmail.com or lin@linennis.com
- Messenger m.me/DAGsedona
- Make simple, modest dresses for needy girls
- in third world countries
- in poverty pockets in the United States, e.g. Reservations
- Reduce human- and sex-trafficking
- Attach a Dress-a-Girl-Around-the-World label to the front of each dress
- Show this girl is under the care of an organization
- Create a sustainable organization that will live in perpetuity
- Build an official chapter of Dress a Girl Around the World
- Elect or appoint an Ambassador acknowledged on world website
- Develop a Sedona- or Verde Valley-based distribution channel for the dresses
- Individuals who travel to third world countries
- A church who sends missionaries or mission boxes
- People
- Women and men
- Teens and children
- Tasks
- Assemble dress kits, all-inclusive except for thread and labor
- Dress fabric measured and cut
- Doubled pockets cut
- Bias tape or ties cut
- Elastic cut
- Button(s) or other embellishments
- Pattern or instructions to continue making dresses
- Cut pockets
- Cut dresses
- Cut elastic
- Sew dresses
- Make double fold, extra wide bias tape
- Print or copy instruction sheets
- Drive to collect donations and finished dresses
- Continued person-to-person grassroots operation
- Group sewing or kit-making days
- At someones home
- In a public place such as the library
- Lynne Crowe is checking with the Nazarene Church in the VOC (Jim Cunningham)
- The Stash on-hand
- Sturdy fabric for about 200 dresses
- Fabric for pockets and pocket lining
- Trims, lace, buttons and thread
- About 100 labels
- Donations of supplies and kits continue to come in through Sedona Wishlist
- Cash on hand (possibly $20-$50)
- Incidentals will probably be paid for by the person volunteering to handle the need
- Dress a Girl Labels, $10/100 labels
- Printing dress instructions
- Printing sex trafficking warnings
- Envelopes or gallon storage bags to contain dress kits
- Founder is Rachel Eggum Cinader, Rachel@h4wi.org, P.O. Box 14, Forest City, IA 50436, 641-251-4015
- Organization is a 501c3, but getting tax deductible receipts without being an official chapter is challenging
- Autonomy is given to Chapters, with very few restrictions (labels and dress distribution count)
- Sedona contact is listed above: Lin Ennis