STEPPING INTO OUR MISSION - Women around the world work, learn and collaborate in collectives to support themselves, and their children and improve their living conditions across the globe. My journey into the collective lives of women, who sew, is the foundational vision of the Women-Sew Global Foundation. Our organizational mission is to create global awareness and a response to women and girls engaged in sewing collectives globally, as well as locally, with intended outcomes of economic and leadership empowerment. Based on a global theory of change that addresses the underlying causes of poverty and access to resources for women, particularly women of color; sewing collectives are an approach to achieving income, leadership skills, self-sustainability, and equity in domestic decision making and disabling domestic violence for women. — Dr. LaVerne Lewis, Founder