This...
is Mama Lois! She is one of our two sewing teachers in the new-ish sewing project I’ve been managing. She was hired at the beginning of our sewing project in March to help the other ladies learn some skills and techniques that they would need to start producing beautiful hand-crafted products (more on that later). Mama Lois is a tough teacher, but she is also very silly and fun and out-spoken (not the norm for Kenyan women). I love her.
Okay, I’m not going to pretend that this happened today or even in the past week, because it was actually just a day or two before I went to Mombasa... in the beginning of May. Oops. I wrote this a few weeks ago, but decided to post it now, after hearing Mama Lois’ new ringtone this morning and giving me another reason to love her: Mama Say a Prayer by Dolly Parton, my most admired living lady! Anyway, before my trip, Mama Lois brought us all bananas that she grew herself in her own garden.
I love gifts like this. The bananas were delicious and even more sweet knowing what a sacrifice it surely was for her to give away so much of her home-grown fruits.
