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Lillian Weber: 99-year-old who sews one dress a day for African girls

Crafty 99-year-old Lillian Weber, for charity, sews one unique dress every day to help impoverished African girls.

In the last few years it has Lillian Weber already sewn 840 small dresses for a charitable non-profit organization Little Dresses for Africa, which distributes clothes to impoverished children in Africa. A 99-year-old from Iowa, he happily starts every morning with a new dress, which he sews to completion in the afternoon. Although her work is highly skilled, 99-year-old Lillian always takes the time to make each dress special, with unique details, because she wants each of the girls who will wear the dresses to feel proud in them. Because next May, Lillian Weber will be celebrating hers 100th birthday, she set herself the goal of sewing her own by then a thousand dresses. But even after her 100th birthday, she will not stop with charity.

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So far, the organization has collected more than 2.5 million dresses, which were distributed in more than 47 African countries, as well as to help children in countries like Haiti, Honduras, Thailand, Mexico and even to some places in USA.

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