A quilt is a multi-layered blanket, often used as a home decoration or as a baby blanket. Quilts are an ancient craft but really took off in the United States in the late 1600’s. Today, in the northwest state of Oregon quilting remains vital by incorporating all kinds of new styles and fabrics – some of them from Indonesia. Ariadne Budianto reports. …
It was something, the silence. Nothing but the scuff of her slip-on shoes as Madeleine Mukantagara walked through the fields to her first patient of the day. Piercing cries once echoed down the hill to the road below. What she carried in her bag had calmed them.For 15 years, her patient Vestine Uwizeyimana had been in unrelenting pain as disease wore away her spine. She could no longer walk. Her life narrowed to a dark room with a dirt-floor in rural Rwanda, prayer beads hanging on the wall by her …
The holiday season is a beautiful time of year in the nation’s capital with many amazing holiday light displays from the National Zoo to the White House Christmas tree. However, this year it is extra special with “Enchant Christmas at Nationals Park,” where visitors get a chance to help Santa save Christmas, lost in a huge maze of Christmas lights. Saqib Ul Islam has more. …