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Fleece Vest FV-N-PFV
Original price was: $ 27.25.$ 21.75Current price is: $ 21.75.
On sale while supplies last, all sales final! Long polar fleece vest with two pockets, buttons, and mandarin collar, Green & Black, S-XL Model is 5’6″, 145#, and wearing a size M.
Description
Fleeing from Tibet at the age of 12 with little schooling and no money, Pema-la Lama struggled to settle herself in to her new country of Nepal.
A refugee there, she taught herself to read and write in Nepali and learned how to knit and sew, all the while caring for 6 younger siblings and tending to a father dying of cancer. When Ric and I first met Pema-la in 1984 she lived with her husband Namgyal (also a Tibetan refugee, who fled when he was 1) and their baby daughter, Chimmi in a small room in Kathmandu with no water, bathroom or kitchen. They supported themselves with sales from a small shop where they sold the bags and knitwear that they made by hand…
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