Growing Mend

Step 2: The Practical Interview

After the first interviews, we had the difficult task of narrowing down the twenty candidates and only invite ten back to show us their sewing skills.

It wasn’t easy.

In fact, based on their experience, tailoring knowledge and vulnerability we decided to invite eleven back to the Mend center. 

Although all the seamstresses at Mend now work on electric sewing machines, they are not commonly used by tailors in northern Uganda. This meant setting up five pedal sewing machines for the ladies to show off their talent. Once the six new seamstresses are chosen to join Mend, they’ll receive in-depth training on the electric machines.

During the practical interviews each lady was asked to make a bag within a set time and all of them exceeded our expectations! Making it even more difficult to select the top six. 

Thanks to your purchase, we hope to add the remaining five before the end of the year.