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...

  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...

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....

On Friday September 9th, The Cross Stitch Project will host a bag sale and Indian inspired celebration at the 1st Existentialist Congregation in Candler Park from 7pm -10pm. The bags are the first produced by the girls in the Kolkata program. In addition, there will be raffle prizes from Atlanta...

I am staring at the orange fingers of my mendhi decorated hand–reveling in its strangeness. Tamanna wrote my name on my wrist. It seems out-of-place with the leaves and tendrils of her Arabian design: an old-fashioned Anglo name etched in a tribal flourish. I write behind the closed curtain of...

Our last day of training we divided forces: Elizabeth learned the Kata (or running stitch) and did some how-to videos with the stitching girls while I went over iMovie with the computer girls. This session has been really productive and what we were trying to convey long distance—that the kids...

We had our first full session with all of the Kolkata kids yesterday.  We’ve got 14 girls and 2 boys signed up—but we are also training staff and hope that new lessons will be added to the computer training schedule already in place.  The student are working on 2 iBooks...