Bargain Quest

At church, we ran into a couple who recently returned from a two-week mission trip to Uganda. They were blessed to be a part of numerous wonderful projects there, but one story in particular stuck with me and I wanted to share it…

The wife who went to Uganda is an excellent seamstress. At an orphanage where the mission team worked, she visited the tailor who makes the school uniforms, etc. to see if there was anything she could help with. To her surprise, the tailor didn’t have a single pin! The team had the opportunity to supply pins, thimbles, thread and fabric to the orphanage.

From my extremely limited sewing experience, pins are a fundamental sewing supply. Not only are pins basic, they’re dirt cheap. During one of my forays into sewing, I acquired a box of 1000 from Wal-Mart for $.88. Yet this Ugandan tailor, Rebecca, couldn’t afford them. I guess it just gives a facet of concrete meaning to the abstract term “Poverty.”