Victor Hugo (February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885) considered the most influential French Romantic writer of the 19th century once said there is nothing stronger than an idea whose time has come. This seems true when it comes to the realization that little girls in emerging nations are at the bottom of the list to receive gifts. Clothes, shoes, and other gifts go to the rest of the family first. However, this is changing thanks to a number of groups in the U.S. and other first world nations. Like tulips 
bursting into bloom on a warm spring day, groups of women and girls have set out to make and ship dresses for little girls. The gifts are not only needed to clothe them but these new dresses are linked to a definite increase in self worth and personal value. With a brand new dress comes the realization that someone cares about them as a person, and this fact is a great step forward in their sense of self and about their self-development.
A number of little girls in Klamath Falls, Oregon started making dresses in order to “Make a Difference”. This brought into being “Sew’n Hope”, a program now sponsored by the Nile Street 
Church of Christ in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Dresses are being sent to Malawi in shipments by way of the Malawi Project. Village of Hope in Ghana, Namwanga Mission in Zambia, and Sanyu Foundation in Uganda are also receiving these dresses.
Two other groups assisting the Project with dresses for little girls are, Little Dresses for Africa, Rachel O’Neill, www.littledressesforafrica.org, as well as a group of church women in Portland, Oregon coordinated by Ida Partlow, and the Oak Hill church in Evansville, Indiana.