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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

COLMAN, S.D. (KELO) — A woman from Colman is using her talents to help an organization collect dresses for little girls in other countries. It’s a hobby 77-year-old Jan Ellens loves to do — sewing. “I ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A Louisville nonprofit is on a mission to help young girls look and feel beautiful with a fashion show. The ACE Project, which works to transform the lives of underserved ...