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Start with a pattern and instructions Treadle sewing machines are still used throughtout Eastern Africa. Machine knitted school sweaters		Take a group of eager women and a faithful instructor and give them 14 machines....and Viola!!! A sewing poly technic is born. Enjoy the overview of how the school is run....day to day. Sew a paper mock uniform Irons heated by charcoal Machine knitted sweater for babies	Mer is holding a finished uniform, ready for the market Finishing by hand. Charles Langat is the current instructor
The sewing school shares an outdoor kitchen with the church. There is no cafeteria or bag lunches or vending machines. Just beyond this building are the enclosed pit latrines.		This corn and bean dish is a staple of Kenyan boarding schools.	Inside the round houses big cauldrons of beans and corn simmer for hours. Tea time is always an important time of day for Kenyans. Kenya is a former British Empire. Abossi is located near the tea highlands that form the back bone of the Western Kenyan ecomomy.