Lisa Tresch
Quilting Class via YouTube? Sure!
Could we have ever imagined doing a sewing class for our students via YouTube? Would we have thought there would ever be a reason for...
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Lisa Tresch
- Sep 15, 2020
- 1 min
End of Summer Brings a New Beginning
We’re enjoying the last days of a very strange summer. Maybe you need some positive news today. We have some! Kelsey Carter is joining...
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Lisa Tresch
- Aug 17, 2019
- 3 min
Let's Clear the Confusion
In one year, 51 women have completed or are still in the RiSE program, and 30 women will enter the program in September.
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Lisa Tresch
- Jul 29, 2019
- 3 min
News! LTFF Grant Provides Equipment for a Dream
Over the past year, the RiSE program has watched a talented core group of seamstresses come together and take ownership of designing and...
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Lisa Tresch
- Jun 20, 2019
- 3 min
Teamwork Results in A Unique Grocery Bag (and you can buy one from us!)
I have to admit that there are seasons when I'm no good at carrying my own shopping bags to the store. I leave them at home, or even...
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Lisa Tresch
- Mar 25, 2019
- 2 min
Shae, Ciin, and the Capsule Wardrobe
In February, Shae Haining launched her line of capsule wardrobe clothing, and RiSE seamstress, Ciin, is stitching pieces weekly as the...
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Lisa Tresch
- Jan 30, 2019
- 2 min
Ready to Welcome and Stitch
It's almost time for class! On Monday, February 4, RiSE will welcome 16 new students to ten-week our Sewing Basics session. Some of these...
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Lisa Tresch
- Dec 18, 2018
- 5 min
A Locally Made Dream
Two women, born in the same year on different continents, are now working side by side in Tulsa to fulfill their dreams of making...
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Lisa Tresch
- Oct 9, 2018
- 2 min
"Paying it Forward" with Burp Cloths!
Every Thursday afternoon and Friday morning we gather at CarePoint Ministry Center with our Advanced Project students - the ladies who...
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Lisa Tresch
- Sep 21, 2018
- 1 min
RiSE! Refugee Women in Tulsa Finish a Ten-Week Sewing Course
Every Monday, for ten weeks during the summer, we welcomed 26 women into a large room at South Tulsa Baptist Church to learn the basics...
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Lisa Tresch
- Sep 21, 2018
- 2 min
From Fourth Grade to High School: Maxwell Rises to the Challenge
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, ...
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Lisa Tresch
- Jun 12, 2018
- 3 min
A Welcome Addition
When we think of our work in Ghana, it centers around how we can help resource women to rise within their communities through small...
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Lisa Tresch
- May 17, 2018
- 2 min
Local Work Begins in June!
On May 1, the Rising Village Board of Directors voted to begin the Refugee Sewing Enterprise (RiSE) in Tulsa, a local program, that will...
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Lisa Tresch
- Apr 2, 2018
- 2 min
Strong Women, Your Daughters Are Watching You.
When a single mother enters our Income Generation program, we know that her daughters are watching her closely. Suddenly, she is a...
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Lisa Tresch
- Dec 27, 2017
- 2 min
Dress Clothes and A Christmas Chicken
If you happened to be in Ghana last week and were on the dirt road between Nantan and Ankaase, you might have seen a motorized...
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Lisa Tresch
- Nov 29, 2017
- 2 min
The Making of Your Basket
This week, we are welcoming Gifty and Akukuli into our Income Generation program in Gambibigo, Ghana in the Upper East Region of the...
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Lisa Tresch
- Nov 17, 2017
- 1 min
Eight Days of Thanksgiving
Want to get a better night's sleep? Improve your psychological and physical health? Enhance empathy and reduce aggression? Try gratitude....
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Lisa Tresch
- Nov 4, 2017
- 2 min
Northern Travel Journal: The Women Who Weave Straw and Scraps
We woke up early Friday morning to catch the bus to Bolgatanga, and Kenneth, our staff in Bolga, met us at the bus station. We were also...
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Lisa Tresch
- Nov 3, 2017
- 2 min
North Trip Travel Journal: Wax, Stamp, Dye, Earn
Bunkrugu is a small community village in the north, and although we thought it would be a relaxing trip as we drove there through the...
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Lisa Tresch
- Nov 1, 2017
- 3 min
North Trip Travel Journal: Stitching Skirts and Learning French
We are in Tamale after a seven-hour bus ride from Kumasi. What a wonderful time to once again reunite and meet the people we serve! I was...
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