INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Twenty donated sewing machines is helping change the fabric of more than a dozen Afghan women’s lives. Imani Aid’s delivered them to Exodus Refugee’s sewing Art Circle group as ...

Since the takeover of Kabul, Afghan women and girls in the country have been prohibited from continuing their careers and education. Because of this, combined with an economic crisis, many have had to ...

ON A DECEMBER night at Quality Sewing & Vacuum in Bellevue, about 20 women are seated on folding chairs arranged in a circle. In the center is a table filled with brightly wrapped packages. There’s a ...

MUNCIE, Ind. — On a hot Tuesday morning in early July, women and children gathered amid tables of clothing and folded fabric in a cool church basement. The occasion was a sewing circle meeting for ...

Suzanne Hege has been sewing for over 50 years. It is simply her passion. She has created costumes for churches and schools and has made shirts for racing teams. She has also sewn for many people in ...

Whirs and clacks fill the silence of a room of third- through sixth-graders, their young heads bowed as they give full attention to the tasks at hand. First United Methodist Church hosts students from ...

When Mujidat Yusuf-Ajao arrived in Waterloo’s Sunnydale neighbourhood three years ago, she was an international student from Nigeria attending college. She was also the mother of three young children.