We're excited to celebrate seven years with you, our Action Kivu family! We started with a small sewing workshop and education assistance program in eastern Congo that with YOUR partnership, has grown to a community center that houses the Sewing Workshop, Literacy Classes, Bread Baking, Basket Weaving, and Soap Making courses, and over 3000 children have been sent to school. Nearby is our shared farm where over 80 women farm their own plots of land. We have graduated 236 women with the tools and education to start their own businesses, and have 48 students in the Class of 2017 eager to receive a sewing machine to start their new lives.Your investment in the future of these women is changing lives, and an investment in women is an investment in the future generation, and a more just world. Read more and donate today at http://www.actionkivu.org/action/What is the impact of your giving? Read stories from our alumni to learn how their lives have changed:
- Sewing Workshop Alumnus Francine: Entrepreneur for Equality
- Sewing Workshop Alumnus Mwamini on Sisterhood
And meet the current Class of 2017, eager to start their co-ops and businesses!
- Class of 2017 Sewing Workshop Student Bahati on Finding Courage
- Start with Love: Sewing Student Iragi on Raising Up Good Leaders
Hear how this training has changed lives, from the women of the Sewing Workshop, Class of 2015!