In Pittsburgh, the East End Cooperative Ministry runs the training program SewForward to help people — predominantly unemployed immigrants and refugees with limited language skills — to learn the ...

Camille Metzger, owner of Blue Marble Threads, is teaching industrial sewing courses in her Grand Rapids studio through the Grand Rapids Community College Workforce Training program. The students who ...

Zar Zar Win, a refugee from Burma, sews a cuff onto a striped button-up blouse at Vickery Trading Company. This story is part of our focus on solutions put forward to tackle big and small social ...