64 year old Yvette sews for a living and hardly secures her livelihood

L’Orient le Jour newspaper published an interview with 64 year old Yvette whose livelihood depends on a small sewing workshop which she runs along with a relative.  Yvette bitterly acknowledged that the art and craft of sewing is disappearing as most of what she does nowadays is alterations of readymade garments.  She also notes that there was a time when sewing was more prosperous as she used to work up until the wee hours of dawn.  For now, Yvette uses her income to settle her routine bills pertaining to the workshop and is left with an amount of USD 800 to 1000, in addition to USD 350 that her only son sends her, and which are hardly enough to cover rent and basic living expenses.
Source: L’Orient Le Jour 6 March 2014