Sharing Hope. Nurturing Transformation.
The State where we work is one of the poorest states in India, it is also home to more than 241 million people, making it the highest populated state in India. The majority of the people depend on agriculture and migrant farm work, which is often unreliable and leaves many families without jobs for months at a time.
Over the last year, 120 women graduated from our tailoring schools with life transforming skills that will enable them to provide for their families, start businesses, and lead lives of respect and dignity within their communities. With every school we start, doors are opened and hope is brought to a marginalized people.
Some of you probably saw this heading and immediately thought, “The blessings of COVID? How could COVID ever possibly be a blessing?” Habakkuk 1:5 (that unpronounceable and often skipped over …
The Elephant Project has been in the works for about two years now. If you have had the chance to attend one of our India Discovery Fairs, you have probably …
We have had great success with the tailoring program this year! Our four schools in India teach women the treadle sewing machine and fundamental business practices over six months. A hundred and twenty women successfully graduated this year, and many have gone on to work in the cities or teach their own tailoring classes.
Today, we have four tailoring schools running in villages in northern India with more coming this year. Every six months, a class graduates, and we give the graduates a chance to be a part of our elephant project. We want to give every woman the opportunity to support themselves financially.
Kamu squeezed into the tiny room for one final class. Tomorrow would be her graduation, and today she had the task of sewing her very own graduation uniform…
“What if we brought Bethany and Anika together in a project that would be mutually beneficial to people in two different countries?”
When she finished her routine, the chanting and jeering continued for some time before they figured out that she had finished with her street act. Almost sullenly, the crowd broke up, mostly men, and continued with the business that had brought them…
Sawdust littered the concrete floor and filled the home with a pleasant, woody scent. The man and his wife set the door upright and with help from them fitted it to the as-yet empty doorway. Now his neighbors would have a door that could latch in place every night and during the day when they worked.