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 ...

A dozen woman gather every week at E-Town Sewing Studio to help others. The dresses they sew are woven with the power to save children from human trafficking. Armed with ordinary needles and thread, ...

Sewing machines hum, irons hiss and scissors snip in a small room at the Wolfforth United Methodist Church each month as about a dozen women meet to sew dresses and shorts they will send to children ...

The concept is simple: Get as many willing hands together as possible to sew basic sleeveless cotton dresses and send them to young girls in Africa who may never have had a new dress. Then watch the ...

It has happened to the best of us: The shopping disaster day. We drag ourself from shop to shop, searching for that perfect dress and go home empty-handed and frustrated. But what if I told you that ...

CINCINNATI -- Two years ago, Sharon Ricketts, a retired school teacher, watched a media report on sex trafficking victims. She was distressed at the plight of the women and haunted by the sad faces of ...

HAMPTON — Jan Hunt and Dott Ferrari of WHS sponsored a sew-a-thon for staff, students, family and friends to benefit Dress a Girl Around the World on Saturday, Feb 18. About 50 people came together to ...

The whir of sewing machines and the snipping of scissors through fabric are sounds heard in Lancaster County that are changing young girls’ lives on the other side of the world. More than 4,000 miles ...