Six years ago, Renita Yahara was given several large boxes of material from a friend. Yahara, of Elizabethtown, started searching online for a way to use the material that would help others. That’s ...

On a recent sunny Saturday, about 26 women gathered to sew dresses for the Dress a Girl Around the World project, which is part of Hope 4 Women International. This organization, founded in 2006, has a ...

Keep your sewing machine busy with 15 free summer sewing patterns for girls. These easy projects are fun to make and even more fun to wear. If your sewing machine’s been calling your name and your ...

WASHOUGAL, Wash. (KOIN) — A group of women in at Washougal United Methodist Church are teaming up to sew dresses for girls in 82 countries. Volunteers are part of a program called “Dress A Girl” run ...

One by one dresses are sewn together at the Casas Adobes Congregational Church. Stitch warlock, Ron McLain says sewing these dresses, "gives little girls all over the world a dress that they may have ...

Sharon Meehan used to teach in an inner-city school. She noticed that a girl at her school was teased about her clothing, which revealed her low-income status. So when the girl was named student of ...

A Christian charity has distributed almost 4 million dresses to girls living in poverty abroad through a campaign that oversees dress-making efforts from numerous churches and nonprofits. Dress a Girl ...

Las Vegas resident Jil Gertz just wants to make a difference in the lives of children. That s why she came up with the idea to hold a sew-a-thon to benefit girls in Africa with the help of her church, ...

DARTMOUTH — When Rose Rego began sewing at the age of 15, she didn't think about the destination of the products she was making in a South End factory. But decades later, she is acutely aware of how ...