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Progress

Progress

The girls in the computer training class have been studying with their Cross Stitch sponsored Spoken English teacher for 6 months now.   There is a great improvement in their English comprehension and speaking.  English skills were the number one requested skills training from the young women of Trinita.  Advanced English training opens up a much...
Stitching Exchange

Stitching Exchange

  Back at Trinita it is so nice to see so many familiar faces among the girls and to meet some newly joined students.  The staff – as always—is so genuinely excited and we all get a little giddy in our round of “hellos”.   We start our series of workshops by giving the Cross Stitch...

Village Life

On our organizational and training trip this winter, we began by visiting a village in Chhatna—about 6 hours by train west of Kolkata.  This area is the Bankura District in West Bengal and one of the most ignored areas in the region for development.  The climate is arid—when we arrived it felt like a pleasant...