A Mission that Hits Home

Colgrove_6122Thirteen year old Mary-McClain Colgrove is making it her mission to stop human trafficking by education and making dresses. Being the Alabama Teen Ambassador for Dress a girl Around the World, she is doing her job with a passion to stop this growing crime. “Knowing that the girls out there that this crime is effecting, are around my age, pushes me even more. If these girls are dressed in nice dresses, the predators out there will think they are cared for and will leave them alone,” stated Mary-McClain.

Last Monday, Colgrove got a group of 13 girls from the Demopolis Middle School involved. With the help of Traci Pearson and her grandmother, Linda Jones, they taught the girls how to use the sewing machines. “This way, when we get together next month, we can actually make the dresses ourselves,” said Colgrove. It’s enlightening to think that the girls making these dresses are the exact ages that would be targeted and abducted for this crime. The plan is for the girls to meet each month in the DMS library to make these dresses.

Mary-McClain and her events have already provided 53 dresses. They were personally handed out when Pollie Meggs, a missionary from Tuscaloosa, went to Serbia. Mary-McClain has made it her goal to provide 100 dresses from the Demopolis area to be handed out to young ladies in need.

Colgrove has been organizing these events all over town in homes and churches. Her next event will be Monday the 20th at the First United Methodist Church of Demopolis. It starts at 6pm and everyone is welcome. You can bring a new pillowcase and sewing machines, if you have them. You don’t have to have these things to come, just a willingness to help this young lady in her mission to dress a girl around the world.