On Friday we were so incredibly blessed to have a chance to meet Esther Mkandawire. Esther is the director of the Needs Care Center in Lusaka Zambia, and is our partner working to coordinate the Sewing & Tailoring Training Program. She told us that of the first 20 graduates, 10 have found full-time jobs, and the remaining 10 are working together using the...

So we are working hard to set up our new charity. The website is still under construction, but set up enough for a sneak peak… You can check it out at www.sewpowerful.org You can read more about why we are starting it by reading this update here Let us know what you think! Jason &...

So we don’t know what it’s like where you live, but up here in Seattle Toms shoes are all the rage. Our 13 year old daughter first told us about them. Then we became big fans as we started to learn about their business model. Then we bought the book – Start Something That Matters by the founder Blake Mycoskie. It is like a perfect expression of...

  As you guys know we’ve been doing Liberty Jane Gives Back projects for a couple of years now. Using funds from our Liberty Jane business to fund various charitable efforts, most specifically the orphanage & sewing project in Zambia. But that was never the full vision. LJGives Back has been an abbreviated and incomplete version of what we ultimately...

Hi everyone, In Romania, orphans who are preparing to be released from the institute need job skills training. World Vision has a fantastic program to help make that possible. It is our featured project for August & September. So help us reach our fund-raising goal of $5,000 by purchasing from Liberty Jane! Just click the link to read the pdf. Romania Orphans...

  Hi everyone, As you know we work with a ministry in Zambia that cares for 475 orphans. The ladies there have an ongoing sewing & tailoring cooperative, and they use the money to help support the orphans. So, since American Girl dolls & all our patterns are out of the question there – we were wondering… Do any of you know of any cute cloth...

Hi everyone, We’d like to share a very special story with you that we received from Esther Makandawire, the director of the Needs Care Center. Lizy is 26 years old and a mother of two children. She lives with her parents. She was divorced 2 years ago. She did not complete high school, but got pregnant in eleventh grade. Life has never been easy for Lizy.because...

Hi everyone, Thanks again for helping us support the Zambian Seamstresses. Here are some nice pictures of them learning. The program was 3 months, (it’s already over), and they learned a...

Hi everyone, As you probably remember we did a special project with our Fall 2010 Line to bless 40 Zambian Seamstresses with training and supplies, (including several industrial sewing machines). They have formed a cooperative to help the orphans in their community – all centered around a very special place called the Needs Care Center. Anyway, we actually...

Hi everyone, As you’ll recall our Christmas 2010 charitable project was to equip  40 Zambian seamstresses with the tools and training they need to open a successful garment business. We didn’t know what would happen when we asked our friends and customers to join us in the effort. Amazingly we crushed our fundraising goal and provided $4,000 to the...