Moved by stories of monthly isolation, unhygienic makeshift solutions and stigma, a Victorian woman is making reusable period kits and delivering them to those who need them most. Carolyn Walker ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Dan Corbett held up piece of tie-dyed cotton rich with deep hues of purple, blue, green and gold. “This is a beautiful fabric,” he said as he sat at a sewing machine surrounded by ...

The Alachua County chapter of Days For Girls held a grand opening ceremony Sunday to celebrate its new sewing center in Gainesville. Located at the Wesley United Methodist Church in Gainesville, the ...

While spending more than a year spent working at a Kenyan orphanage, Celeste Mergens learned that the girls at the orphanage were provided nothing in terms of feminine hygiene products. Each month the ...

Watching developments in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Stephanie Wilson wondered how she could help. She thought of the women fleeing Ukraine, and those trying to survive amid the destruction.

On a recent Monday morning, a group of women sit in a Seattle dining room, sewing, drinking coffee and chatting. Even though it’s Monday, some of them are known as the Saturday Sewing Sisters, and ...

Click play above to hear a version of this story. Fabrics are piled precariously on every available surface in the Days for Girls International center in Gainesville, little scraps and pieces of ...

It was a sewing bee with a special purpose — Tuesday, members of four womens' sewing groups on P.E.I. gathered to learn how to create reuseable menstrual kits for girls in Kenya. The kits are designed ...

Fashion students in Hobart have helped ensure girls in impoverished countries do not miss a week of school each month due to menstruation, by sewing sanitary kits. As part of their assessment, the ...