Get started on your Holiday Shopping!
Shop online or contact us to discuss your order.
Give a gift to those you love, while giving back to your community.
Shop online or contact us to discuss your order.
Give a gift to those you love, while giving back to your community.
Sew REDI Buffalo is a Refugee Economic Development Initiative in Buffalo, NY. We use sewing to teach economic empowerment and provide opportunities for self-sufficiency to members of Buffalo's refugee community. Our refugee clients gain marketable skills while coming together to share the experience of making something from start to finish.
We supply all product materials so that our sewing clients do not assume the risk to make products for sale. As each refugee client learns to sew, they take a test to earn a brand new sewing machine for personal use.
We are an all-volunteer organization, supported by those with sewing and business skills from all over the WNY community.
Sew REDI Buffalo was founded in 2011 by Dr. Patricia Hutton, Canisius College professor emerita, and is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization.
We supply all product materials so that our sewing clients do not assume the risk to make products for sale. As each refugee client learns to sew, they take a test to earn a brand new sewing machine for personal use.
We are an all-volunteer organization, supported by those with sewing and business skills from all over the WNY community.
Sew REDI Buffalo was founded in 2011 by Dr. Patricia Hutton, Canisius College professor emerita, and is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization.
Economic DevelopmentWhen you purchase an item made by our clients, all of the profit goes to the refugee who made the item. This model allows our refugee clients to have a small business without expenditures for materials.
|
Community & FellowshipIt is common for many of our refugees to have lived in camps for 10-20 years. We provide a safe space where they can be among their peers, practice their English, and share in everything their new community has to offer.
|
EmpowermentOur mission is to provide opportunities for our clients to enrich their own lives. We love to see the pride on someone's face when they earn their own sewing machine or make something new for the first time!
|
Our Partners:
We are grateful to receive support from:
- Canisius College
- Catholic Charities
- Darlene Penacchi Fabric Design
- Elizabeth Mast Graphic Design
- J. Elliot & Company, LLC
- M&T Bank
- Rich Products
- Roycroft Campus Corporation
- Taste of Diversity Festival
- Tom Wolf Photography
- Workers Food Co-op
- Zonta Club of Cheektowaga-Lancaster