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Poverty to Profit: Finding Female Empowerment in Uganda
Countless women in Uganda suffer from domestic abuse. Traditionally, many Ugandan women don’t have incomes of their own, and many of their husbands lord this over them. Beaten down and berated, they’re punished for being “burdens” in a society where men are seen as the primary breadwinners. But not anymore. Now you’re helping to empower these women! In August of 2018, our Kinship Partners in Uganda hosted a women’s conference as part of their Women of Worth Empowerment Program. Over 200 women made the journey to attend: struggling single moms, lonely widows, abused wives, and any other women who needed Community
Life-Saving Food Does More Than Fill Hungry Bellies
When Pang Sobin got sick, she’d just finished high school and had a promising future ahead of her. But instead of finding a job, continuing her education, or helping her struggling family, she spent the next four years in bed. Pang Sobin and her family lived too far away from a hospital to seek medical treatment when she got sick, and their local witch doctor was useless against her mystery illness. Pang Sobin was simply not getting better, and she and her family were starting to lose hope. Then one day, Pastor Jack from Kinship Cambodia visited Pang Sobin’s Child Stories
Ian Almost Didn’t Make It: You Rescued Him from the Brink
When Ian’s mom died, his whole world turned upside down, inside out, and shook him out into a reality he could hardly believe. She’d been sick, but not that sick - or so Ian thought. When he woke up one morning to his uncle telling him his mother was dead, he was in complete shock. Ian never knew his father, and is an only child. It was him and his mom against the world. When she died, he was left to face the world alone. He was only 10 years old. Ian was taken in by a family who Newsletter
You Transformed the Nyasi Kinship Project in Kenya
Last month, you gave over $32,000 to open up the Nyasi Kinship Project in Kenya so they could rescue up to 30 desperate orphans from their community. Thanks to your generosity, these children will have beds and bedding, a clean water well, school uniforms and clothes, kitchen utensils, bathrooms and clean tile floors in their new home. In the struggling village of Nyasi, fathers abandon their young wives and children, HIV is leaving children orphaned, families are starving, children have become street thieves because they can’t go to school, and people are homeless. This community desperately needs a safe haven Newsletter
Widow Spotlight: Meet Linet, Caregiver at the Geta Kinship Project
Our unique and effective Kinship model brings both orphans and widows together under one roof, helping each other through their grief and sorrow. Widows serve as the orphans’ caregivers, giving them new life and purpose, and giving the children the love and affection they desperately need. In many cultures where our Kinship Projects operate, women who lose their husbands, are outcasts. They are seen as cursed or deserving of their fate. Where there are high rates of alcoholism and poverty, domestic abuse becomes a serious problem, and yet many women stay in dangerous situations because without her husband, a woman’s Caregivers
