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...

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...

This fall and winter Cross Stitch has been working with girls at The Atlanta Girls School and we are excited to be traveling to Kolkata in a little over a week to take materials created by the AGS girls to share and keep the wheels moving for their joint project. We had the lovely and...