Make Welcome Refugee Sewing School

Our students wrote essays in English and then read them aloud at graduation. So beautiful! Proud of these amazing women.

Our quilting class finished up their beautiful quilts! They demonstrated amazing skill progression over this past year. So proud of them!

We had a lovely graduation today, handing out 67 diplomas to amazing women from around the world. Sewing, computers skills, vocational English and more. Congratulations to the class of 2026!

It's the day before our largest graduation ever! We're set up ace ready to go. Yay!! 👩‍🎓🎓

Friday's Step Outs session was focused on sleeve construction! It was challenging, but a good skill lesson.

During tea and talk this week, we spent some time drawing! Fun to see the divergent takes on the basic picture prompts. 🎨🖼👩‍🎨

Women are relegated as property in the Taliban's new legal code with things like freedom of movement, religious freedom, and access to basic protections officially denied...Visiting family members without a husband’s permission is subject to a penalty of three months’ imprisonment. Victims of abhorrent levels of domestic violence by their husbands have been abandoned to their abusers, who now only face a 15-day maximum sentence, if convicted. https://www.bushcenter.org/publications/two-minute-take-the-talibans-new-law-allows-slavery-and-oppression-of-afghans #:~:text=In%20early%20January%2C%20Taliban%20officials,by%20Taliban%20courts%20throughout%20Afghanistan.

Two Minute Take: The Taliban's new law allows slavery and oppression of Afghans | George W. Bush Presidential Center Read the article Struggle for Freedom spotlight: Yana Zinkevych.. Read Mar 30, 2026 Struggle for Freedom spotlight: Yana Zinkevych

Making button up shirts in Level 2! Choosing the buttons is a hard decision...

Today was all about teamwork! Including staff from who came to share about what their job was like. Great day!