美国百岁老奶奶每天制作一条新裙子捐给非洲
美国爱荷华州的莉莉安·韦伯老奶奶已经将近100岁了，但年纪没有成为她帮助他人的绊脚石。她每天都在不停的缝制裙子，让那些需要的孩子们有衣服穿。从2011年起她开始做这件事，目前已经完成了超过840件裙子。她的目标是1000件。她每天早上开始制作一条新裙子，中午休息一下，下午完成。她把制作好的裙子捐献给非洲的\"小裙子\"组织，这是一家专门给非洲的小女孩分发衣服的组织。
Lillian Weber is on a miion.
Every day she makes another dre for a small child she\'ll never meet.
\"I could probably make two a day, but I only make one,\" she says.
The drees are collected and sent overseas to little girls in Africa by a Christian outreach group called \"Little Drees for Africa\".
\"I have to be busy,\" says Lillian.
And she\'s been very busy.
In the past two years she\'s made more than 840 drees and she plans to make 150 more by May 6th of next year.
You see, by next May, Lillian will turn 100 years old and it will be her one thousandth dre.
\"It\'s just one of those things you learn how to do and enjoy,\" she says.
1 In Lillian\'s Scott County farm house are completed drees for little girls, made from a pattern, but each with extra stitching and individual details, designed to give each child a little extra pride.
\"She personalizes them all,\" says Lillian\'s daughter, Linda Purcell.\"It\'s not like good enough that she makes the drees, she has to put something on the front to make it look special, to give it her touch.\"
What started as a hobby has become a daily labor of love.
Lillian says she starts work on a dre in the morning, takes a break during the midday, and puts finishing touches in the afternoon.
\"I just think she\'s somebody to look up to, somebody whose not just sitting around and frittering（浪费） her life away,\" says Tonya Urbatsch, who nominated Lillian for the \"Pay It Forward\" award.
\"I\'m amazed at her every day,\" adds Linda.\"I\'m very, very proud of my mother.\"
Family and friends will continue to be proud of Lillian, well after her 1000th dre.After all, 1000 is just a number.
\"When I get to that thousand, if I\'m able to.I won\'t quit.I\'ll go at it again because there\'s no reason to not do nothing.\"
When Lillian is finished with her drees, her daughters deliver them to a Davenport senior living apartment complex where a group of residents have a weekly sewing appointment to make drees for the charitable organization.
\"Little Drees for Africa\" is a Christian charitable organization founded in 2008 in Michigan.
Its founder, Rachel O\'Neill, says 2.5 million drees have been distributed.
The simple drees are distributed to orphanages（孤儿院）, churches, and schools in Africa.
Rachel says she\'s traveling to Africa again in September 2014 and February 2015 and hopes to be able to present to a child one of the drees personally made by Lillian.
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