While walking home from a leadership workshop
in Kenya’s Chalbi Desert, I caught up to five-year-old Sori.  She was knitting,
her tiny fingers flying as she walked to the local shop to buy sugar.  Admiring
handiwork from one so young, I asked what she was going to do with her yet-small
piece of cloth. "It’s a blanket to protect my new baby brother from the cold
desert wind at night," she replied. 

    Impressed, I was even more amazed at her ingenuity.
Her knitting needles were four-inch thorns cut from trees surrounding her
settlement.