In one year, 51 women have completed or are still in the RiSE program, and 30 women will enter the program in September.

Over the past year, the RiSE program has watched a talented core group of seamstresses come together and take ownership of designing and ...

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 wors...

In February, Shae Haining launched her line of capsule wardrobe clothing, and RiSE seamstress, Ciin, is stitching pieces weekly as the or...

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...

Two women, born in the same year on different continents, are now working side by side in Tulsa to fulfill their dreams of making quality...

Every Thursday afternoon and Friday morning we gather at CarePoint Ministry Center with our Advanced Project students - the ladies who co...

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 o...

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, ...

When we think of our work in Ghana, it centers around how we can help resource women to rise within their communities through small busin...

On May 1, the Rising Village Board of Directors voted to begin the Refugee Sewing Enterprise (RiSE) in Tulsa, a local program, that will ...

When a single mother enters our Income Generation program, we know that her daughters are watching her closely. Suddenly, she is a workin...

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 three-whee...

This week, we are welcoming Gifty and Akukuli into our Income Generation program in Gambibigo, Ghana in the Upper East Region of the coun...

Want to get a better night's sleep? Improve your psychological and physical health? Enhance empathy and reduce aggression? Try gratitude....

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 w...

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 cou...

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...

We are ready to hit the road! In the next three days you will be with me a three-day trip (which includes 28 hours on a bus) as we travel...

Using wooden blocks and hot wax, Janet and Comfort will learn how to transform ordinary white cotton fabric into colorful, cloth that inc...