In September we created our own Women’s Week. Designed to share with our online community some stories from the studio with the help of a few special individuals, meet Esterline, Virginie, Fideline, Rosine and Cleire: Esterline is the President of Stitch Sainte Luce. Income generated from selling her embroidery through Stitch has not only helped her afford school and hospital fees but small luxuries like new clothes for church and celebrations. The biggest change Esterline ha

We love to travel the UK sharing the Stitch products and always get such a fantastic interest from market-goers not only on the products but also the project and wider SEED Madagascar organisation. It’s a great way to tell people what we do and a great way for people to find out how they can get involved. As we head towards the end of 2018 (where HAS this year gone?!) we’ll be heading to our usual haunts and visiting a few new spots, here’s where you can find us and when: Por

A couple of weeks back we looked at the history of Madagascar, the country’s independence and how the SEED Madagascar projects bring independence to individuals and communities in the South East. As Stitch progresses through it’s fourth phase, independence is on the horizon for the cooperative. Last week both the embroiderers and the SEED project staff spent the week planning and developing a visual roadmap to guide the women towards an independent future. The women have pick

Online shopping is something that pretty much everyone does these days, first and foremost for it’s convenience and secondly you can find some pretty good discounts. Amazon is a big player in this and although many involved in the sustainability space boycott Amazon for it’s less than desirable impacts on the environment they are trying to do better. One of their initiatives that particularly benefits us at SEED Madagascar, and subsequently Stitch is the Amazon Smile programm

The Stitch Cooperative is expanding! In January we were able to welcome an incredible 99 new women into the Stitch Cooperative, which means we now have 120 fabulous women part of this amazing programme. Many of the women were already selling embroidery products as associates but by joining fully as members means that they can now create their own products, use the embroidery studio in Sainte Luce and spread the positive economic benefits of the Stitch project further across t

It’s been a while since you’ve heard from us at Stitch, so we thought we’d share an update on what’s been going on in Sainte Luce! January 2017 marked the end of a project phase which means that our key Stitch team, Vicki, Paula, Sylvie and Sarah, were all busy running the project monitoring. This usually includes activities like interviewing our embroidering ladies and conducting workshops which map production and routes to market, to work out the project progress and mark o