Gospel News — Mar-May 2012

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drowning under discarded plastic bags with much of the urban open space looking like a garbage tip. Astrid got the kids to join her in collecting bags, and then taught the new brothers and sisters and the older kids how to twine them together and weave them into furniture upholstery- the younger kids eagerly waited at the door of the `office' of the school to pass their collected bags to Astrid and her eager team of newly trained helpers:

The final joy was that at least a few mothers had somewhere more comfortable to sit with their children.

Astrid and Damian have subsequently taken the idea forward, constructing a loom with wood, nails, a hammer and string, upon which the plastic bags can be woven into yarn, and are teaching some amazed local people just what is possible: