What would you like to tell your child on their wedding day? What words would you like to address them with when they start their profession? How would you like your grandchildren to remember you? These thoughts, words, letters, memories and moving stories are collected into one folder and make up the Memory Book.
David Wafula visited Caring Hands on Friday September 18th and taught all of us of the importance of the Memory Book. Here in Africa where life expectancy is low, important thoughts are not necessarily passed on from parents to children orally. To this end, the Memory Book is a beautiful solution.
The ladies of Caring Hands received this valuable information from Wafula. Sanna and Milka, art students from Finland also taught the secrets of paper making and assisted in the visual aspects of the book. This way, the ladies were able to write and draw their valuable memories into their own book.
Knowledge is passed on and memories collected.
Saturday the 26th of September was a wonderful day for Uganda’s most beautiful women, as well as the Caring Hands team. The Imperial Royal Hotel in downtown Kampala was filled with people dressed in fancy clothes and beautiful hairdos.
The evening gowns were the highlight of the night. The Caring Hands paper jewelry were wrapped around the pageants wrists, decorated the necks, single beads, and strings of beads were sown into the dazzling evening dresses. Our art students, Milka and Sanna had made new ear rings and hair pins for this event. Magnificent!
The participants proudly adorned our jewelry, but surely, the happiest and proudest persons were us, the Caring Hands people sitting in the audience.
Text: Pia Järvinen, Photos: Milla Happonen
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