The Project Alabama website doesn't yet have up their Spring 2006 catalog, but I noticed that in a previous catalog there was a link for a new program called 'Planting Stitches'.
Planting Stitches provides Project Alabama (and others) with the resource of women who can do hand-sewing, and the really neat aspect of the program is that it's based in the part of the state that really needs new opportunity - the Black Belt.
There used to be more jobs there in the garment industry, but companies have left, and the women that used to have those positions still have an incredible skill that Project Alabama (and other companies) can really utilize. The program was started by Brian Taylor, a Bama grad student, and it's a nonprofit that:
"provides women, living in disadvantaged rural areas of the South, the training, financial and mentoring support they need to emerge from poverty with dignity and pride."
The website for Planting Stitches is here.
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