Moved by stories of monthly isolation, unhygienic makeshift solutions and stigma, a Victorian woman is making reusable period kits and delivering them to those who need them most. Carolyn Walker ...

On a recent Monday morning, a group of women sit in a Seattle dining room, sewing, drinking coffee and chatting. Even though it’s Monday, some of them are known as the Saturday Sewing Sisters, and ...

The Alachua County chapter of Days For Girls held a grand opening ceremony Sunday to celebrate its new sewing center in Gainesville. Located at the Wesley United Methodist Church in Gainesville, the ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Dan Corbett held up piece of tie-dyed cotton rich with deep hues of purple, blue, green and gold. “This is a beautiful fabric,” he said as he sat at a sewing machine surrounded by ...

The question that would change Celeste Mergens’ life came to her at 2:30 a.m. in what she describes as a “gasp moment.” It was 2008, and Mergens had been raising money for an overtaxed orphanage in ...

Fashion students in Hobart have helped ensure girls in impoverished countries do not miss a week of school each month due to menstruation, by sewing sanitary kits. As part of their assessment, the ...

It was a sewing bee with a special purpose — Tuesday, members of four womens' sewing groups on P.E.I. gathered to learn how to create reuseable menstrual kits for girls in Kenya. The kits are designed ...

Watching developments in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Stephanie Wilson wondered how she could help. She thought of the women fleeing Ukraine, and those trying to survive amid the destruction.