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...

Miss Diana Boadi Diana. Vivian. Ante. In our blog posts, when we list names of women, they are usually women in our programs - either...

Have you signed up to volunteer with an organization and then regretted it because it caused you to feel overburdened? Did you volunteer...

Elephant grass is a sturdy straw that grows in the Upper East Region of Ghana and is perfect for weaving the beautiful Bolga baskets we...

We held our first House Party on September 17 in Tulsa, and, yes, it was a party! One of our board members graciously opened her home so...

We're endlessly fascinated by Adinkra symbols. These are interesting visuals that represent concepts or original thoughts. The symbols...

Why host a Rising Village House Party? Here are three good reasons: One: We'll provide the invites for you to send out via email, amazing...

Today, we turn over our sign that hangs on the door of our little retail shop - from Open to Closed. And then we'll pack up the sign...

It was our last full day in Ghana - one final time to be with the students. Our team had spent the past four days getting to know the 12...

This is my favorite photo of Linda, taken in April, 2016 when she was about a year into her hairstylist apprenticeship. The shop where...

It's our birthday month and we're celebrating the first year of our shop in Tulsa. Each week during this month we'll be giving away a...

Georgina and Lydia Nmaa and Teni Hudu and Nafishetu During the month of June, which is also our birthday month, we want to introduce you...

The three names on this tag are real people who made a clutch bag that traveled from the Himalayas to our little shop on 11th Street. If...

We have a fancy sewing machine at the shop. It was donated by a supporter whose mother no longer sewed, and she wondered if we could use...

Chloe, a high school senior who lives in Indiana, came to the Rising Village Shop in February with an idea. She wanted to use her sewing...

Dear Friends, I'm writing to you from my sunny dining room in a new house that doesn't quite feel like home. We've been unpacking boxes...

We're celebrating Sampson this month. We call him Little Sampson because we have two boys named Sampson - and because he is the youngest...

Please let me make something beautiful...a thing that reminds us there's good in the world. - Ben Rector In the gathering area of the...

Rising Village has two groups of people we serve in the communities where we work in Ghana: orphaned children and single mothers. These...