A seamstress by profession, a centenary has found her sewing machine to make fabric masks. After having delivered hundreds of them to the Red Cross, she is preparing to make them for the local population.
Amélie Barezzani is from Lombardy, the region of Italy most affected by Covid-19, and will celebrate her 101st birthday on May 24. This former professional seamstress has never completely hung up her sewing machine, and has started producing fabric masks to help the Red Cross and protect the population from coronavirus, reports The Parisian.
The woman who lives with her 74-year-old son Jean in Cran-Gevrier, near Annecy in Haute-Savoie, has made two hundred fabric masks for the Red Cross! "I want to be of service. I have always used to work, so I continue. I am happy to make myself useful by making these masks. I have always had courage and above all morale", explains Amélie Barezzani to Parisian.
The centenary has therefore set up her workshop in a corner of the living room, and manufactures masks with a shovel, helped by her daughter-in-law, Paulette, aged 68. She can't get over the energy of her mother-in-law: "She is extraordinary, brilliant. Even at 100, she is the one who pushes me. In the morning, she said to me:" Come on! Today we are working, come on! Today we're going to sew! "Https://www.aufeminin.com/".
For Amélie, making these cloth masks means being generous, but also finding an occupation during confinement. "As long as my eyes are open, I will continue to work. At 100, I still have my whole head and my legs. And I want to live a long time. Currently, with confinement, I feel a little prisoner", she says daily. After having delivered the Red Cross, she is about to start manufacturing fabric masks to protect the local population, at the request of the town hall of Annecy. We applaud him!
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by Mélodie Capronnier