Enable 50 Women in Angola to Generate Income

Greetings to all! The team at Hope For Our Sisters Inc., in partnership with the Aftercare team at CEML Hospital in Lubango, Angola, is pleased to bring you our latest impact report for our project to "Enable 50 Women in Angola to Generate Income.". As always, we are so thankful for the support of each of you in bringing this program to our sisters who have suffered from fistula and are living at the patient villas in CEML either awaiting or recovering from surgery. This program equips them with literacy, numeracy, and language classes and teaches them marketable skills such as gardening, sewing, and crafting that they can take forward into their lives outside of the hospital to support themselves and others in their families and communities. These women are able, and amazing, and so deserving of these opportunities. We cannot thank you enough for helping them to realize dreams to learn new things and become more self-sufficient. 

The team reports that in the last few months there have been new skills added to the course offerings thanks to some new teachers working with the staff! The women have been making earrings and wearing them out as a form of advertisement and to bring themselves joy, even selling some at a recent spiritual life conference. They also are learning to crochet! Additionally, they have had an uptick in local partnerships from groups such as a churches, who offer encouragement and donations to the women and the programs. 

A story was shared about a sister named Celina. Though very young, Celina has had more than one surgery to heal her fistula without success. Rather than letting this destroy her happiness, Celina is described as always smiling and dedicating herself to projects and skills like sewing. The team is hoping to purchase her a sewing machine as a present, as they have all been impressed with her ability to both create and tailor clothes and this may be a meaningful way for her to provide for herself. Please keep Celina in your heart as she prepares to transition back to her home without having been physically healed but perhaps with a measure of hope in her heart. 

We hope you are continuing to enjoy these reports every four months and, as always, we welcome your feedback or suggestions to Cara, one of our Board members, at cbrooks@hopeforoursisters.org. For more regular updates on all our programs, please visit our website and sign up for our Constant Contact updates 1-2 times per month, or follow us on Facebook! Thank you again for your incredible generosity and support of this cause and these amazing women.

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