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The Clothes
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Mc Clancy writes: Monday afternoon and the bus suddenly is filled with forty seven excited visually impaired children, going into Moshi, who are about to be fitted with new clothes. For the majority of these children they have never been to a shop to buy anything new let alone be fitted for clothing. Seldom do they get away from school on a bus trip and the excitement is palpable.
When we arrive in the town, one of the teachers tries different tailors to see which will give us the best price and then they are taken into the shop -eight of the children in order to cover all size options.
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They wait patiently and as the tailor calls them forward you can see the excitement in their faces. Meantime Russ is left on the bus in thirty degrees temperatures and texts me in the shop that some of the children need the toilet. I ask the tailor is there a café near by where we could take all the children for an ice cream or drink and am directed to a café which is suddenly taken over by our group and it has a toilet – much to the relief of Russ.
The children all order their drinks and are smiling and enjoying their day out – a real treat for them, and something that is taken for granted by us. We return on the bus with the children singing and with clothes that have made them feel special.
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