A former orphan in Seattle is donating 600 Christmas dresses to help girls everywhere feel beautiful. Jan Stribre says she spent her childhood bouncing between orphanages and foster homes. But she ...

VINTON - Colorful "pillowcase" dresses, from tiny floral-patterned ones to adult-size striped ones overflow clothes racks and walls of the St. Mary's Catholic Church Parish Hall in Vinton. From purple ...

two T-shirts and adorned with appliqued hearts. She showed the dress to a women’s fellowship group and invited members to help her make the dresses for orphanages worldwide. “Five of us started around ...

Mount Vernon — During the summer, Mount Vernon area Girl Scout Troop 874 initiated a dressmaking project for the girls living and/or going to school at the Haiti Micah Project orphanage. Many of the ...

LAGUNA BEACH – Women at Laguna Presbyterian Church are giving simple materials, a little sewing know-how and about 45 minutes of time to spread hope among girls in Africa. The church’s sewing group is ...

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 ...

HULL – Jean Liben knew that most people in the Caribbean island nation of Haiti are poor. But she didn’t know how poor until a year ago, when fellow church member Kristin Parks spoke to their St.

PLATTSBURGH — Six local women are using their sewing skills to help needy girls in Latin America. Mary Lou Leavitt, Cheryl Webb, Shirley Arnold, Esther Dominy, Minnie Beguin and Leona Andrews have ...

SEATTLE - A Kitsap County woman donates hundreds of dresses to homeless and needy children every Christmas to make them feel beautiful. Every year at the Mary’s Place Holly Jolly Holiday Party, Jan ...