We are delighted to congratulate Anna Bayles who was received the President’s Award from the Rotary Club of Norwich St. Edmund recently. The citation, reads as follows,
Anna Bayles creates and makes children’s clothes from recycled bed linen, old clothes and donated fabric. She can make a pair of boy’s shorts in twenty minutes and a girl’s dress in thirty. Each item of clothing is exquisitely sewn and made with love. The right button, decoration or motif is added before the garment is ironed and hung ready for collection. The tailoring is perfect. During the three-month lockdown period in 2021 Anna made 700 items of clothing which were transported to Africa (including Uganda) and the Far East for needy children. That number isn’t unusual for Anna, as she is always sewing.
Anna, from Wymondham, has been sewing since she a child, taught by the nuns in the rural Picardy region of France, where she was born. Her late husband, Jack Bayles, moved to Wymondham in 1946 and together they adopted four children.
All this is quite amazing, however at the age of 98, Anna highlights Rotary’s motto of “Service Above Self.”
The Rotary Club of Norwich St. Edmund.